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Forceps delivery.

John Patrick O'Grady·Christian S Pope·Despina E Hoffman
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This chapter reviews the role for instrumental delivery in current practice and gives a critical account of current techniques of operative vaginal delivery by forceps. Important issues, including case choice, documentation, forceps application, avoidance of complications, and training and education are included.

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Extraction, ObstetricalFemaleHumansObstetrical ForcepsPelvimetryPregnancyJournal ArticleReview

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John Patrick O'Grady, Christian S Pope, Despina E Hoffman. 2002. Forceps delivery.. https://doi.org/10.1053/beog.2002.0251

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[Delivery by forceps: indications and materno-fetal morbidity].

A retrospective study concerning patients having had a delivery by means pair of forceps over a period going from 1st Jun 1999 to 31st December 2000. The frequency of the use of forceps for delivery is 4.95%. The defect of eviction was an indication of the pair of forceps. Fetal suffering was the main indication. Maternal morbidity was represented essentially by a more or less injury of the genital tract with a rate of 11.1%. The rate of neonatal mortality is 1.28%. The maternal improvement of the maternal and fetal prognosis depends on an accurate indication of the use of forceps. In certain circumstances, mainly in fetal suffering, it is often difficult to choose between the high way and the low way.

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