the effectiveness of physical therapy techniques in the second stage of labor on perineal trauma in nulliparous women referring to the teaching hospitalof emam khomeini – khalkhal     sohrabi m [1] , ivan bagha r [2] *, shirinkam r [3]     received: 18feb, 2012 accepted: 6may 2012     abstract   background & aims : perineal trauma is common outcome of vaginal birth, and can cause short term and...

Femoral fractures due to birth trauma are an extremely rare but important birth injury. While vaginal breech delivery, although rare, can cause femur fracture, abdominal breech delivery is not expected to cause fracture. Here we report on a low birth weight infant who was delivered by cesarean section for breech presentation at 30 1/7 weeks of gestation and sustained a unilateral fracture of th...

Neonatal morbidity no less than neonatal mortality remains an outstanding paediatric problem. Numerous investigations have studied the frequency with which stillbirths and neonatal deaths are due to intracranial trauma. Much less that is reliable is known concerning the subsequent progress of infants who survive intracranial birth injury. A number of published studies deal with the clinical dia...

METHODS Women were recruited through Trauma and Birth Stress, a charitable trust in New Zealand founded to support women who had experienced birth trauma and to educate healthcare professionals and the general public about PTSD after childbirth. Women were asked to describe in writing their experiences of PTSD after childbirth in as much detail as they wished. 2 women hand wrote and sent their ...

Verrucous hemangioma (VH) is an uncommon, congenital, vascular anomaly that resembles angiokeratoma but it encompasses distinctive clinicopathological features. The differential diagnosis of this entity included all the hyperkeratotic vascular tumors and malformations and, especially in localized cases, pigmented lesions. VH lesions initially present at birth, and therefore, the diagnosis in th...

Aim: To determine the causes and treatment of birth trauma related femoral fractures. Study design: A longitudinal study Place Duration: This was conducted at DIMC, Dow University Health Sciences, Karachi from January2021 to January 2022. Methodology:The included cases fractures in neonates caused by trauma. The histories were investigated terms gestational age, weight,and mode delivery. catego...

We describe a neonate with bacterial infection of a cephalohematoma by Escherichia hermannii and with meningitis. We review the literature on infected cephalohematomas and E. hermannii and document the first case of invasive disease due to this pathogen.

The Fort Peck Sexual Health Project: A Contextual Analysis of Native American Men is a community-based participatory research (CBPR) project that explores the extent to which knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about sex, intimate relationships, and mental health influence sexual and reproductive health. For the purpose of this study, the influence of age, fatherhood, and mental health factors re...

Introduction Although in 2000, the frequency of birth injury claims filed in the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Region (KPNC) had remained stable for years, their cost had risen dramatically. In response to this trend, the KP Board of Directors assigned Bruce Merl, MD, Director of The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG) MedicalLegal Affairs, and Julie Nunes, KPNC Regional Risk Management Dir...