background: early diagnosis of abnormal progressive labor and prevention of prolonged labor will cause decreased complications of mothers and fetuses. this was conduced to evaluate the alert line in who recommended program for diagnosis of abnormal labor. methods: subjects were 140 pregnant women. when their cervices were dilated about 3cm, the progress of delivery and condition of mothers and ...

background while tocolytic therapy can halt the process of delivery, some patients return before the 37th week of pregnancy with recurrence of preterm labor signs. objectives this study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of progesterone in the prolonging of gestation and reduction of neonatal complications. material and methods in a clinical trial in 2010, 110 singleton pregnant women admitt...

Objective To describe potential intrapartum complications for fetuses affected by absent pulmonary valve syndrome. Study Design Two cases of intrapartum fetal death at full term were collected from our institution's labor and delivery unit records. Results In both cases of intrapartum fetal death, the fetuses had been diagnosed with absent pulmonary valve syndrome and had likely experienced acu...

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The recent “benign” combination of strong output growth and low inflation has led to speculation that the potential growth rate of real GDP has increased. This paper exam ines trends in labor supply to see whether this source of GDP growth might have accelerated. Discussions of labor supply often focus on labor force p a rt i c i p ation. But other considerat i o ns—s u ch as the length of the ...

Cuando la Secretaría de Salud todavía tenía el logotipo azul que decía SSA, corrían tiempos difíciles porque no había dinero y la idea de crear nuevas instituciones era recibida con reservas, no sólo por el Presidente Zedillo, siempre generoso y atento a las necesidades de salud de la población, sino también, como ya es costumbre, por el secretario de Hacienda, responsable de cuidar el erario p...

The objectives of this retrospective cohort study were to estimate the incidence of obstetric complications during labor and delivery and their demographic predictors. A total of 2706 pregnant women were consecutively admitted to a midwife obstetric unit with labor pain between January and December 2007 constituted the sample. Among them 16% were diagnosed with obstetrical and foetal complicati...