Title
“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
Repository Citation
Nelson, D. B.,
Alexander, J. M.,
McIntire, D. D.,
Leveno, K. J.
(2019).
“New or Not-So-New” Labor Management Practices and Cesarean Delivery for Arrest of Progress.
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
1-6.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2019.07.027