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External Cephalic Version: Is it an Effective and Safe Procedure?
Published on: June 6, 2020
Elective induction, selective deduction, and cesarean section
1Flinders University, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Abstract:
A recent systematic review found no "good quality evidence" that elective induction of labor confers substantial benefits to either mothers or babies, but concluded that elective induction is associated with a decreased risk of "cesarean delivery." Admittedly, elective induction was qualified as "at 41 weeks of gestation and beyond" with 42 weeks being proclaimed as the cutoff point between "elective" and "medically indicated." Major predictors of the success of any induction and the subsequent mode of delivery, such as parity and cervical status, were not taken into account. Crucial boundaries between what is elective and what is selective, what is medically indicated and what is not, and what is maternal request or persuasive coercion, remain as vague as ever.
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