As many as 24% of women who have un...

As many as 24% of women who have undergone cesarean section processs may have undergone the surgery too early during labor, according to a March 31 2000 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) pres release. A reflection funded by AHRQ found that approximately 294000 of the united million cesarean section procedures performed annually come to pass because of lack of progres in labor. Investigators reviewed medical records and deduceed postpartum telephone surveys from 733 women who delivered full-term nonbreech infants according to unplanned cesarean section procedures. Data were captured from 30 hospitals in looks Angeles County and Iowa between March 1993 and February 1994

Researchers rest that women underwent these managements although their cervixes were dilated between 0 and 3 cm This contradicts American association of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) recommendations that the cervix be dilated 4 cm or more before the diagnosis is made, according to the release.

Researchers raise physicians may be more comfortable with risks associated with these transactions than with risks associated with abnormal labors that do not progres as rapidly as look fored They also concluded that physicians either disagree with ACOG recommendations or interpret them differently and may formulate their possess definitions of lack of progres in labor. Investigators recommend more research is needed to understand the health drifts of diagnosing lack of progres earlier during labor and to what end physicians do not follow ACOG recommendations.

Quarter of Cesarean Sections May Be Performed Too Early (pres release, Rockville, Md: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, March 31 2000) 1-2 Available from http://www.newswise.com/articles/2000/4/ CESAREAN.AHC.html. Accessed 1 April 2000

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