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Caesarean for breech: A paradigm shift?
Author(s) -
Kaushik Vasundhara,
Gudgeon Clive
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.734
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1479-828X
pISSN - 0004-8666
DOI - 10.1046/j.0004-8666.2003.00077.x
Subject(s) - caesarean section , observational study , medicine , breech delivery , obstetrics , breech presentation , retrospective cohort study , term (time) , elective caesarean section , pregnancy , surgery , physics , genetics , pathology , quantum mechanics , biology
The year 2001 became ‘the year of Caesarean for the breech’ after the results of the Term Breech Trial were published in October 2000. The purpose of the current paper is a retrospective observational study identifying the increase in Caesarean section rates that occurred in Fairfield Hospital after the Term Breech Trial. Fairfield Hospital is a level 2 hospital in the south‐western Sydney health area with 1800 deliveries per year.