“New or Not-So-New” Labor Management Practices and Cesarean Delivery for Arrest of Progress

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-20-2019

Publication Title

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

First page number:

1

Last page number:

6

Abstract

Background: Because nearly one-third of births in the United States are now achieved by cesarean delivery, comprising more than 1.27 million women each year, national organizations have recently published revised guidelines for the management of labor. These new guidelines stipulate that labor arrest should not be diagnosed unless... (see full abstract in article)

Keywords

Active phase; Arrest of dilatation; Augmentation of labor; Cesarean delivery; Failure to progress in labor; First stage labor; Labor management; Latent labor; Latent phase; Oxytocin; Primary cesarean delivery

Disciplines

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Language

English

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