Objective: We tested if fetal pulse oximetry in addition to electronic fetal monitoring (CTG) and scalp blood sampling improves the accuracy of fetal assessment and allows safe reduction of operative deliveries ( 50%) and scalp blood sampling ( 50%) performed because of nonreassuring fetal status. Study design: A randomized controlled trial was conducted in 146 patients with term pregnancies in...

background and aims: complaints of obstetrics and gynecology specialist are on the top of complaint from doctors and these have been increasing with increased population and births. in this regard, parallel to industrialization of life, tendency to cesarean against vaginal delivery has been increased in patients. all the cases of complaint increased from 1995 until 2010. in multiple studies and...

The prevention and treatment of post-partum hemorrhage is a subject of never-failing interest to the practitioner, and in view of the sudden and frequently fatal catastrophe which may ensue as the result of its occurrence, every attempt to suggest new or improved methods for either its prevention or cure demands careful examination. Stanmore Bishop,1 as the result of an article on this subject,...

every month, after a period of prodromes consisting of headache and general lassitude, a flow of clear non-coagulable blood took place from the right ear, in which no pre-existing local lesion could be determined. After three years the ordinary genital discharge began to take place, gradually replacing that from the ear, which only occurred every two or three months. The author remarks that the...

and art of midwifery are so many and so noteworthy, insist with much force upon the danger to the mother when the attendant makes frequent vaginal examinations. Dr. Julius Rosenberg 1 summarises these opinions, and endorses them with great emphasis. He pleads for the management of labour without internal examinations, which should be resorted to only in doubtful cases. He maintains that by abdo...

The use of Pituitrin in Obstetrics.?The action of pituitrin. on the uterus during labour has now been studied by numerous observers, and we are in a position to judge to some extent of its value in obstetric practice. The drug, as is well known, is obtained from the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland. Apart from its stimulating action on uterine muscle, pituitrin raises the blood-pressure, a...

Dr. Arun Nayak, MBBS, MD Obstetrics & Gynaecology, DGO, FICOG is Professor & Head of Unit in Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital, Mumbai, India; Dr. Meenal Sarmalkar, MBBS, MD Obstetrics & Gynaecology, DGO is Additional Associate Professor in Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai, Maharashtra...

1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan 2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tokyo Medical School, Japan 3S.S Ladies Clinic, Japan 4Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Tohoku University, Japan 5Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Inamino Hospital, Japan 6Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kurume University, F...