Quantifying the effects of postcesarean adhesions on incision to delivery time
Simon Shenhav1, Leonti Grin1, Victoria Kapustian1
1a Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Barzilai University Medical Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev , Ashkelon , Israel.
Objective:
To quantify the effects of postcesarean section adhesions severity on the incision to delivery time.
Methods:
Secondary analysis of data of a prospective randomized controlled trial of women undergoing first repeat cesarean section. The presence and severity of adhesions were reported by surgeons postoperatively and accrued into an adhesion severity score. The primary outcome measure was the correlation between adhesion severity score and incision to delivery time.
Results:
Of the 97 women analyzed, 47 (48.5%) had an urgent cesarean delivery. Forty-four patients (45.4%) had adhesions. Adhesion score correlated with incision to delivery time (R = .38, p < .01). Patients with adhesions had a significantly longer incision to delivery time (10.3 + 5.9 versus 8.2 = 3.7 minutes, respectively; p = .04). In the Kaplan-Meier analysis, more patients with adhesions remained undelivered at any time point after incision (p = .036). The mean delivery time of patients with adhesion score three was significantly longer in comparison with women with no adhesions (13.0 versus 8.2 minutes, respectively; p = .002).
Conclusions:
Post cesarean adhesions delay delivery of the newborn. There is a linear correlation between adhesion severity and the incision to delivery interval.
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