The main aim of the study was to do Comparative study to assess the effectiveness of left lateral position vs upright position on fetal heart rate and labor pain among parturient mothers in first stage of labor at Government hospital, Vellore,. Quasi experimental, comparative Pre and Post test design was adopted for the study. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling technique, and 60...

An investigation on the occurrence of peri-parturient rise in trichostrongylid nematode egg output in breeding ewes was carried out on a Ranch in the semi-arid area of Kajiado District in Kenya during the period May 1999-April 2000. During the study, 20 ewes randomly selected from the breeding stock and 20 un-mated female yearlings were monitored for faecal strongyle egg output every 3 weeks. A...

A prospective follow up study was conducted in Addis Ababa town attends on different selected farms for fifteen months from January 2015 to April 2016. The aims of this study were to determine the current status of parturient paresis, associated risk factors, and to estimate the economic loss of parturient paresis that is attributed in dairy herds. Parturient paresis is a condition of third to ...

BACKGROUND The participation of the father in the birth manifests itself in action, that depends on the attitude towards family-assisted birth and the preferences of the parturient woman. AIM Evaluation of expectations of parturient women in the aspect of the active participation of the father, that would enable the use of the most commonly reported preferences in the clinical praxis and the ...

Neonate-directed care is rare in non-avian reptiles, but female pitvipers attend their young for a period of time after birth. One of the primary functions of parental care is the protection of offspring from predators, and parents of diverse taxa are able to modulate their antipredator behavior in the presence of offspring. To test the hypothesis that the antipredator behavior of post-parturie...

BACKGROUND It is known that Tuffier's line intersects the spine at the L4 spinous process or at the L4-L5 intervertebral space. Full term parturient women undergo various physical changes. Therefore, determining the vertebral level with Tuffier's line based on palpation inevitably is not very accurate. The aim of this study was to use ultrasound to verify the difference between vertebral levels...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Regional analgesia for labor pain and general anesthesia for cesarean section in the morbidly obese parturient is associated with increased maternal and perinatal complications. The purpose of this review is to describe the anesthetic management of the morbidly obese parturient. RECENT FINDINGS Compared to the lean parturient, the morbidly obese parturient has an increased l...

A 36-year-old, 204-kg parturient with a past medical history of Factor V Leiden requiring enoxaparin therapy developed a postdural puncture headache. With careful coordination of her enoxaparin dosing, an epidural blood patch was successfully performed. Performance of a blood patch in patients taking enoxaparin involves the withholding of the medication for a specific period.