BACKGROUND The relief of post-cesarean delivery pain is important. Good pain relief improves mobility and reduces the risk of thromboembolic disease, which may have been increased during pregnancy. Pain may impair the mother's ability to optimally care for her infant in the immediate postpartum period and may adversely affect early interactions between mother and infant. It is necessary, theref...

INTRODUCTION Perinatal mortality rates have come down in cesarean sections, but fetal morbidity is still high in comparison to vaginal delivery and the complications are more commonly seen in emergency than in elective cesarean sections. The objective of the study was to compare the fetal outcome and the indications in elective versus emergency cesarean section performed in a tertiary maternity...

Methods Retrospective study was conducted at WH. This included a total of 1806 women who underwent to C-section from Jan 2008 to Dec 2009. The risk factor data were collected from I.C surveillance notification form of each patient’s SSI. The risk factors which were studied included: age, SSI bundles, type of C-section elective or emergency, duration of operation (less or more than 57 minutes), ...

abstract background: the number of women who select cesarean section due to fear of childbirth has increased. role play education seems to be a helpful method to remove or reduce the fear of childbirth. therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effect of role play education on primiparous women’s fear of natural delivery and their decision on the mode of delivery. materials and methods: in...

background: appropriate pain management is needed during the post -partum hospitalization period for preventing cesarean section ( cs) related complications. protocols of post-partum pain management should be planned based on the facilities of each center or region. the aim of current study was to compare the analgesic efficacy of oral methadone and intra muscular (im) pethidine which the latte...

objective: to evaluate the ability of lidocaine local injection to relieve postoperative pain in cesarean delivery. materials and methods: this double blinded clinical trial was conducted in a university on 100 women underwent elective cesarean section during march 2012 till march 2013. patients were divided to two groups with random block method (n = 50 in each group). first group received 4mg...

background & aim: despite the advantages of natural childbirth and complications associated with cesarean section, rate of cesarean delivery has increased dramatically in recent years. therefore, appropriate training is essential to reducing this trend. this study aimed to evaluate the effects of training about the benefits of natural childbirth on the attitude and intention to select the mode ...

OBJECTIVE To measure the rate of wound infection after cesarean section and assess risk factors for such infection. METHODS A prospective surveillance was conducted at King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, during the period January 2000 through to December 2000. This included a total of 754 cesarean sections. The following risk factors, which were studied included,...