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Odon device: a promising tool to facilitate vaginal delivery and increase access to emergency care [PDF]

, 2013
The last innovation in operative vaginal delivery happened centuries ago with the invention of the forceps and the vacuum extractor. The World Health Organization Odon Device Research Group recently published a protocol for a feasibility and safety study
Belizan, Jose, Harris Requejo, Jennifer
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Penalties for Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act Violations Involving Obstetrical Emergencies [PDF]

, 2020
Introduction: The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) was intended to prevent inadequate, delayed, or denied treatment of emergent conditions by emergency departments (ED). While controversies exist regarding the scope of the law, there is
Arora, Sanjay, Burner, Elizabeth, Menchine, Michael, Terp, Sophie, Wang, Brandon   +4 more
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Administrative Performance of “No-Fault” Compensation for Medical Injury [PDF]

, 1997
No-fault is the leading alternative to traditional liability systems for resolving medically caused injuries, and policy interest in such reform reflects numerous concerns with the traditional tort system as it operates in the medical field through ...
Bovbjerg, Randall R., Rankin, Peter J., Sloan, Frank A.   +2 more
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Risk factors and incidence of third trimester stillbirths in China

Scientific Reports, 2021
About 2.6 million third-trimester stillbirths occur annually worldwide, mostly in low- and middle-income countries. However, the causes of stillbirths are rarely investigated.
Ying Hu, Qi Wu, Jia Liu, Die Hong, Yuqing Zou, Jingjing Lu, Yuhui Wang, Danqing Chen, Lu Qi, Zhaoxia Liang   +9 more
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Effect of Fetal Sex on Maternal and Obstetric Outcomes

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2017
Fetal sex plays an important role in modifying the course and complications related to pregnancy and may also have an impact on maternal health and well-being both during and after pregnancy.
Mohammed Al-Qaraghouli, Yu Ming Victor Fang   +1 more
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Pre-operative pain sensitivity: A prediction of post-operative outcome in the obstetric population

Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology, 2013
Context: Experimental assessments can determine pain threshold and tolerance, which mirror sensitivity to pain. This, in turn, influences the post-operative experience.
Luana Mifsud Buhagiar, Olivia A Cassar, Mark P Brincat, George G Buttigieg, Anthony Serracino Inglott, Maurice Zarb Adami, Lilian M Azzopardi   +6 more
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Timing of administration of epidural analgesia and risk of operative delivery in nulliparous women: A case–control randomised study

Journal of Obstetric Anaesthesia and Critical Care, 2018
>Background and Aim: Epidural analgesia (EA) offers an effective form of labour analgesia. The time of administration of EA and its relationship with the mode of delivery is controversial.
Ipsita Chattopadhyay, Srabani Basu, Amarendra K Jha   +2 more
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Effect of dural puncture epidural combined with programmed intermittent epidural bolus on labor analgesia in patients with gestational hypertension: a randomized controlled clinical trial

Frontiers in Medicine
BackgroundHypertensive disorders of pregnancy affect 5–10% of pregnancies and require the maintenance of hemodynamic stability while providing effective labor analgesia.
Binghui Zhang, Hongyang Zhang, Yuan Wu, Guofang Li, Shuxiang Liu, Kai Zhao   +5 more
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Women’s use of Preventive Primary Care in the Late Postpartum Period [PDF]

, 2020
The literature has limited data on how women access health care after the traditional postpartum period (postpartum). Modeled after a paper by Bryant (2016), this project assesses the prevalence of primary care visits in the late postpartum period (LPP ...
Price, Katherine, BS, Seagrave, Martha, BSN, PA-C   +1 more
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Establishment and application of a point-of-care testing and diagnosis method for early immediate expression gene IE1 of cytomegalovirus in maternal urine based on isothermal amplification

Virus Research, 2023
Background: Human Cytomegalovirus virus (HCMV) is a worldwide virus that causes no serious symptoms in most adults. However, HCMV infection during pregnancy, it may lead to a series of serious complications, such as hearing loss, mental retardation ...
Chu Chu, Shijiao Yu, Fanli Min, Lizhou Sun, Meilin Liu, Qian Meng   +5 more
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