 | Birth Journal:Issue in Perinatal care
Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care is a multidisciplinary, refereed journal devoted to issues and practices in the care of childbearing women, infants, and families. It is written by and for professionals in maternal and neonatal health, nurses, midwives, physicians, public health workers, doulas, psychologists, social scientists, childbirth educators, lactation counselors, epidemiologists, and other health caregivers and policymakers in perinatal care. For free veiw,please go to
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0730-7659&site=1 or see below:-
Infant and Neonatal Mortality for Primary Cesarean and Vaginal Births to Women with "No Indicated Risk," United States, 1998-2001 Birth Cohorts
Marian F. MacDorman, PhD1, Eugene Declercq, PhD2, Fay Menacker, DrPH, CPNP1, and Michael H. Malloy, MD, MS3
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1523-536X.2006.00102.x
Repeat Cesarean Delivery: What Indications Are Recorded in the Medical Chart?
Mona T. Lydon-Rochelle, PhD, MPH, CNM, Carolyn Gardella, MD, MPH, Vicky Cardenas, PhD, MHS, and Thomas R. Easterling, MD
Infant and Neonatal Mortality for Primary Cesarean and Vaginal Births to Women with "No Indicated Risk," United States, 1998-2001 Birth Cohorts
Marian F. MacDorman, PhD1, Eugene Declercq, PhD2, Fay Menacker, DrPH, CPNP1, and Michael H. Malloy, MD, MS3
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1523-536X.2006.00102.x
Repeat Cesarean Delivery: What Indications Are Recorded in the Medical Chart?
Mona T. Lydon-Rochelle, PhD, MPH, CNM, Carolyn Gardella, MD, MPH, Vicky Cardenas, PhD, MHS, and Thomas R. Easterling, MD |
 | Artificially Rupturing Membranes Fails to Speed Labor Progress, May Be Harmful
Updated Cochrane Review Finds Artificially Rupturing Membranes
Fails to Speed Labor Progress, May Be Harmful
Smyth, R., Alldred, S., & Markham, C. (2007). Amniotomy for shortening spontaneous labour.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, (3)(4), CD006167. ]
The Cochrane reviewers recommend further research to explore the relationship between
amniotomy and clinically meaningful outcomes, as well as womens satisfaction. In the meantime,
women must be made aware that amniotomy offers no important benefits and may do harm.
Authors' conclusions
On the basis of the findings of this review, we cannot recommend that amniotomy should be
introduced routinely as part of standard labour management and care.
We do recommend that the evidence presented in this review should be
made available to women offered an amniotomy and may be useful as a
foundation for discussion and any resulting decisions made between
women and their caregivers.
http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab006167.html |
