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Labor, delivery

Canada

• Perinatal Services BC
  • BC Labour Partogram [2010]
  • Care of the Umbilical Cord [2001]

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Returning Birth to Aboriginal, Rural, and Remote Communities [2010]
  • Joint policy statement on normal childbirth [2008]
  • A Report on Best Practices for Returning Birth to Rural and Remote Aboriginal Communities [2007]
  • Number of Births to Maintain Competence [2002]
  • Guidelines for Ultrasound in Labour and Delivery [2001]
  • Attendance at Labour and Delivery - Guidelines for Obstetrical Care [2000]

International

• Cochrane Library
  • Traditional birth attendant training for improving health behaviours and pregnancy outcomes
  • Routine prophylactic drugs in normal labour for reducing gastric aspiration and its effects
  • Position in the second stage of labour for women without epidural anaesthesia
  • Maternal positions and mobility during first stage labour
  • Labour assessment programs to delay admission to labour wards
  • Interventions for ketosis during labour
  • Immersion in water in pregnancy, labour and birth
  • Fundal pressure during the second stage of labour
  • Enemas during labour
  • Effect of partogram use on outcomes for women in spontaneous labour at term
  • Amniotomy for shortening spontaneous labour
  • Alternative versus conventional institutional settings for birth

• Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
  • Use of the Clean Home Delivery Kit in Nepal: A Qualitative Study [2002]
  • Basic Delivery Kit Guide [2001]

New Zealand

• Auckland District Health Board
  • Paediatric attendance at deliveries [2004]

• New Zealand College of Midwives
  • Normal Birth [2009]
  • Artificial Rupture of Membranes [2008]
  • Waterbirth [2002]

South Africa

• Maternal Care Manual - Perinatal Education Programme
  • The second stage of labour [2006]
  • The first stage of labour: the condition of the mother [2006]
  • The first stage of labour: monitoring and management [2006]

Sri Lanka

• Sri Lanka College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
  • Management of Uncomplicated Labour [2007]
  • Management of Pregnancy in the Presence of Uterine Scar [2007]

United Kingdom

• Joint Royal Colleges Service Liaison Committee
  • Birth imminent (normal delivery and delivery complications) [2006]

• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
  • Intrapartum care [2007]

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Active labour management - query bank [2011]
  • Operative Vaginal Delivery (Consent Advice) [2010]
  • Labour Ward solutions [2010]
  • Safer Childbirth Minimum Standards for the Organisation and Delivery of Care in Labour [2007]
  • Making normal birth a reality [2007]
  • Immersion in Water During Labour and Birth [2006]

United States of America

• Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
  • Professional Nursing Support of Laboring Women [2000]

• CDC National Center for Health Statistics
  • Births - Method of Delivery

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Use of prophylactic antibiotics in labor and delivery. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [2011]
  • Management of labor. Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement [2011]
  • Prevention of unintentionally retained foreign objects during vaginal deliveries. Health care protocol. Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement [2009]
  • Nursing care and management of the second stage of labor, second edition. Evidence-based clinical practice guideline. Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses [2007]

• U.S. Agency for International Development
  • Safe Delivery

WHO

• WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
  • Planning for safe delivery: trainee's guide [2008]
  • Planning for safe delivery: facilitator's guide [2008]

• WHO Reproductive Health Library
  • Effect of partogram use on outcomes for women in spontaneous labour at term [2009]
  • Early amniotomy and early oxytocin for prevention of, or therapy for, delay in first stage spontaneous labour compared with routine care [2009]
  • Amniotomy for shortening spontaneous labour [2009]
  • Position in the second stage of labour for women without epidural anaesthesia [2006]

• World Health Organization
  • Care in normal birth: a practical guide [1996]

Articles in journals

• American Family Physician
  • Spontaneous Vaginal Delivery [2008]
  • Uterine Rupture: What Family Physicians Need to Know [2002]
  • Caregiver Support for Women During Childbirth: Does the Presence of a Labor-Support Person Affect Maternal-Child Outcomes? [2002]

• Israel Medical Association Journal
  • Touch during Childbirth: Yesterday and today [2003]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Think Globally Act Locally: The Case for Symphysiotomy [2007]

• Reproductive Health
  • Maternal position during the first stage of labor: a systematic review [2006]

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  • Obstetrical analgesia and anesthesia
  • Neonatology
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