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Should oral misoprostol be used to prevent postpartum haemorrhage in home-birth settings in low-resource countries? A systematic review of the evidence. [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: Using misoprostol to prevent postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) in home-birth settings remains controversial. OBJECTIVES: To review the safety and effectiveness of oral misoprostol in preventing PPH in home-birth settings.
Avan, B.I., Hundley, VA, Hundley, Vanora, BI Avan, Sullivan, C., WJ Graham, Avan, BI, Graham, WJ, CJ Sullivan, Graham, W.J., Sullivan, CJ, VA Hundley, Brhlikova, Petra, McGettigan, Patricia, Pollock, Allyson M   +14 more
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Factors Influencing Access to Health Services and Choice to Give Birth at Home: A Scoping Review

Journal of Nursing Practice
Background: The increase in the number of home births highlights the importance of understanding the factors that influence access to health services for childbirth.
Sandra da Costa Neto, Mufdlilah, Askuri
doaj   +1 more source

Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
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Freebirth and professional responsibility: Respect for autonomy does not justify clinical neutrality on preventable fetal and neonatal harm

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
The freebirth movement, planned birth without any qualified professional attendant, is expanding internationally, including in Scandinavia, where rising rates and incomplete outcome reporting have raised clinical and ethical concerns.
Amos Grünebaum, Frank A. Chervenak
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Alternate Birth Strategies

International Journal of Women's Health, 2023
Julie R Whittington,1 Taylor Ghahremani,2 Megan Whitham,3 Amy M Phillips,2 Bethany N Spracher,4 Everett F Magann2 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Portsmouth, Portsmouth, VA, USA; 2Department of ...
Whittington JR, Ghahremani T, Whitham M, Phillips AM, Spracher BN, Magann EF   +5 more
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Electrospun Wood‐Derived Biopolymers as Electrodes in Electrochemical Energy Storage Technologies

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Electrospinning transforms wood‐derived cellulose and lignin into architecturally defined, binder‐free carbon electrodes with tuneable porosity and functionality. This review shows how fibre design enables decoupled charge and mass transport, enhancing performance across battery systems, while identifying key challenges in spinnability, scalability ...
Michael W. Thielke, Hattie R. Chisnall, Jesus Vazquez Chavez, Ana B. Jorge Sobrido   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coordinated Architectural and Chemical Reinforcement in the Crushing Mandible of a Soldier Termite

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The crushing mandible of a soldier termite withstands substantial biting loads despite lacking mineral. Its cuticle is partitioned: convex teeth pair hardness and zinc enrichment with aligned chitin fibers for contact durability, while stiffer concave regions between teeth carry bending loads.
Andrew Tran Nguyen, Patryk Wąsik, Juan Fernando Cucuyame Morales, Marie Kate Palau, Adrian Francisco Duran Ornelas, Phani Saketh Dasika, Jin Hee Kim, Radhika Laxminarayana, Eric Hintsala, Greta Chang, Junzhi Liao, Lizhi Sun, Nathan Lord, Atsushi Arakaki, Paul Bardunias, Pablo Zavattieri, David Kisailus   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cost Analysis of the Dutch Obstetric System: low-risk nulliparous women preferring home or short-stay hospital birth - a prospective non-randomised controlled study

BMC Health Services Research, 2009
Background In the Netherlands, pregnant women without medical complications can decide where they want to give birth, at home or in a short-stay hospital setting with a midwife.
Nijhuis Jan G, Basten Marloes CM, Evers Silvia MAA, Hendrix Marijke JC, Severens Johan L   +4 more
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Home birth in Scotland: exploring women's views [PDF]

, 2004
Planning a home birth within a hospital birth-based culture presents possibilities and challenges for women, their families and their attendants. The study reported here sought to increase understanding about women's experiences of planning home ...
Edwards, Nadine
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Why do women choose an unregulated birth worker to birth at home in Australia: a qualitative study [PDF]

, 2017
Background In Australia the choice to birth at home is not well supported and only 0.4% of women give birth at home with a registered midwife. Recent changes to regulatory requirements for midwives have become more restrictive and there is no insurance ...
Elizabeth Christine Rigg, Schmied, Virginia, Dahlen, Hannah Grace, Hannah Grace Dahlen, Rigg, Elizabeth Christine, Peters, Kath, Virginia Schmied, Kath Peters, Dahlen, Hannah G. (R13596), Peters, Kathleen (R11662), Schmied, Virginia (R11439), Rigg, Elizabeth (S31231)   +11 more
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