Labor, delivery, postpartum

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Obstetric forceps, vacuum extraction

Australia

• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  • Instrumental vaginal birth

• Queensland Health
  • Instrumental vaginal birth (guideline supplement)
  • Instrumental vaginal birth

• SA Health
  • Operative Vaginal Birth

Australia, New Zealand

• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Instrumental vaginal birth [2020]

Canada

• BMJ
  • Maternal and neonatal trauma during forceps and vacuum delivery must not be overlooked [2023]

• CMAJ
  • Maternal and neonatal trauma following operative vaginal delivery [2022]
  • Taking a stand for operative vaginal delivery [2018]
  • Ecological association between operative vaginal delivery and obstetric and birth trauma [2018]
  • Perinatal and maternal morbidity and mortality after attempted operative vaginal delivery at midpelvic station [2017]

• Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
  • Morbidity and Mortality Associated With Forceps and Vacuum Delivery at Outlet, Low, and Midpelvic Station [2019]
  • Evolution of Operative Obstetric Delivery in Canada [2019]

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Assisted Vaginal Birth [2019]

Ethiopia

• Frontiers in Global Women's Health
  • Prevalence, indications, and outcomes of operative vaginal deliveries among mothers who gave birth in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

• PLoS ONE
  • Maternal complication of instrumental vaginal delivery and its associated factors: Systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]

International

• BMJ Open
  • Interventions to reintroduce or increase assisted vaginal births: a systematic review of the literature [2023]

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • A research agenda to improve incidence and outcomes of assisted vaginal birth [2023]

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Instruments for assisted vaginal birth [2021]

• Médecins Sans Frontières
  • Instrumental delivery [2019]

Low and middle income countries

• American Journal of Perinatology
  • A Prospective, Population-Based Study of Trends in Operative Vaginal Delivery Compared to Cesarean Delivery Rates in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, 2010–2016 [2019]

Republic of Korea

• Obstetrics & Gynecology Science
  • Vacuum extraction vaginal delivery: current trend and safety [2017]

Sierra Leone

• BMJ Open
  • Vacuum births and barriers to its use: An observational study in governmental hospitals in Sierra Leone [2022]

Sri Lanka

• Sri Lanka College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
  • Assisted vaginal delivery [2021]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• BMC Women's Health
  • Prevalence, indications and fetal outcomes of operative vaginal delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa, systematic review, and meta-analysis [2023]

Sweden

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • The association between episiotomy or OASIS at vacuum extraction in nulliparous women and subsequent prelabor cesarean delivery: A nationwide observational study [2023]
  • Long-term neurological morbidity among children delivered by vacuum extraction - a national cohort study [2023]

United Kingdom

• Health Technology Assessment
  • Intravenous co-amoxiclav to prevent infection after operative vaginal delivery: the ANODE RCT [2019]

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Assisted Vaginal Birth [2020]

• WISDOM
  • Assisted Vaginal Birth (Operative Vaginal Delivery) [2022]

United States

• American Journal of Perinatology
  • Duration of Operative Vaginal Delivery and Adverse Obstetric Outcomes [2020]

• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Evaluation of delivery options for second-stage events [2016]

• Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
  • SMFM Special Statement: Operative vaginal delivery: checklists for performance and documentation [2020]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Research gaps and needs to optimize the use of assisted vaginal birth: technical brief [2023]
  • WHO recommendation on routine antibiotic prophylaxis for women undergoing operative vaginal birth [2021]

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