Open AccessCaesarean Section
Author(s) -
Patek Eva,
Larsson Bertil
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
acta obstetricia et gynecologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.401
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1600-0412
pISSN - 0001-6349
DOI - 10.3109/00016347809154891
Subject(s) - medicine , asphyxia , caesarean section , elective caesarean section , incidence (geometry) , complication , obstetrics , mortality rate , pregnancy , surgery , genetics , physics , optics , biology
. At Huddinge University Hospital 539 Caesarean Sections (C. S.) were made among 8415 deliveries from October 1972 to June 1976, corresponding to an over all C. S. rate of 6.4%. Over these years the rate has increased from 3.5% in 1972 to 9.7% in 1976. The main increase was due to a higher incidence of abdominal deliveries in cases of imminent fetal asphyxia. The maternal complication rate and the neonatal morbidity rate were both 6.5 times higher and the neonatal mortality rate was 4.1 times higher in emergency than in elective surgery. There was neither any mortality nor any morbidity in infants delivered by elective C. S. from healthy mothers at term.