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Cesarean section

Australia

• Women & Newborn Health Service - Western Australia
  • Vaginal Birth after Caesarean Section (VBAC) Intrapartum Management [2008]
  • Care of a woman with a previous caesarean section - Antepatum preparation [2008]

Australia, New Zealand

• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Timing of Elective Caesarean Section at Term [2009]
  • Decision to delivery interval for Caesarean Section [2009]

Canada

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Guidelines for Vaginal Birth After Previous Caesarean Birth [2005]

International

• Cochrane Library
  • Wound drainage for caesarean section
  • Trial of instrumental delivery in theatre versus immediate caesarean section for anticipated difficult assisted births
  • Tocolysis for assisting delivery at caesarean section
  • Techniques for preventing hypotension during spinal anaesthesia for caesarean section
  • Techniques for caesarean section
  • Techniques and materials for skin closure in caesarean section
  • Surgical techniques for uterine incision and uterine closure at the time of caesarean section
  • Peritoneal non-closure at caesarean section
  • Package of care for active management in labour for reducing caesarean section rates in low-risk women
  • Operative versus conservative management for 'fetal distress' in labour
  • Methods of delivering the placenta at caesarean section
  • Local anaesthetic wound infiltration and abdominal nerves block during caesarean section for postoperative pain relief
  • Information for pregnant women about caesarean birth
  • Extra-abdominal versus intra-abdominal repair of the uterine incision at caesarean section
  • Elective repeat caesarean section versus induction of labour for women with a previous caesarean birth
  • Elective caesarean section versus expectant management for delivery of the small baby
  • Early compared with delayed oral fluids and food after caesarean section
  • Corticosteroids for preventing neonatal respiratory morbidity after elective caesarean section at term
  • Cesarean delivery for the prevention of anal incontinence
  • Caesarean section for non-medical reasons at term
  • Antibiotic prophylaxis regimens and drugs for cesarean section
  • Abdominal surgical incisions for caesarean section

United Kingdom

• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
  • Caesarean section [2004]

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Classification of urgency of caesarean section – a continuum of risk [2010]
  • Myomectomy during caesarean section - query bank [2009]
  • Caesarean section for nuchal cord - query bank [2009]
  • Caesarean section after anal atresia - query bank [2009]
  • Caesarean Section (Consent Advice 7) [2009]
  • Birth After Previous Caesarean Birth [2007]
  • Caesarean Section [2004]

United States of America

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request [2006]
  • Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC) [2003]

• American Academy of Family Physicians
  • AAFP Policy on Trial of Labor After Cesarean (TOLAC) [2005]
  • Cesarean Delivery in Family Medicine (Position Paper) [2003]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Birth --- California, 1996--2000 [2002]

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Birth after previous caesarean birth. Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists [2007]
  • NIH State-of-the-Science Conference Statement on cesarean delivery on maternal request [2006]
  • Trial of labor after cesarean (TOLAC), formerly trial of labor versus elective repeat cesarean section for the woman with a previous cesarean section. American Academy of Family Physicians [2005]
  • Vaginal birth after previous cesarean delivery. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [2004]
  • Caesarean section. National Institute for Clinical Excellence [2004]

• National Institutes of Health
  • Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request [2006]

WHO

• WHO Reproductive Health Library
  • Surgical techniques for caesarean section [2009]
  • Methods of delivering the placenta at caesarean section [2009]
  • Alternative techniques and materials for caesarean section [2009]
  • Efficacy and safety of caesarean delivery for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 [2006]
  • Antibiotic prophylaxis for caesarean section [2005]
  • Early compared with delayed oral fluids and food after caesarean section [2004]

• World Health Organization
  • Rising caesarean deliveries in Latin America: how best to monitor rates and risks [2009]

Articles in journals

• Annals of Family Medicine
  • Patient-Choice Vaginal Delivery? [2006]

• British Medical Journal
  • Could a randomised trial answer the controversy relating to elective caesarean section? National survey of consultant obstetricians and heads of midwifery [2005]
  • Systematic review of the incidence and consequences of uterine rupture in women with previous caesarean section [2004]

• Canadian Family Physician
  • Does epidural analgesia increase rate of cesarean section? [2006]

• Canadian Medical Association Journal
  • The costs of planned cesarean versus planned vaginal birth in the Term Breech Trial [2006]

• Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada (JOGC)
  • Caesarean Section-Past and Present [2009]
  • Caesarean Section on Maternal Request: How Clear Medical Evidence Fails to Produce [2009]

• Medical Journal of Malaysia
  • Rising Caesarean Section Rates in Public Hospitals in Malaysia 2006 [2008]

• South African Medical Journal
  • Non-closure of peritoneal surfaces at caesarean section--a systematic review [2005]

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