Caesarean section

Literature Review: Perspectives on Caesarean Section in Urban Slums Assignment # 3 Date: 13-03-2016 Ahmed Muttasim Billah Email: muttasim.billah@brac.net Perspectives on Caesarean Section in Urban Slums Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 3) demand countries “By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births” (The United Nations, 2015). Emergency obstetric care has important role to reduce maternal mortality. Caesarean section (CS) also known as C-section is the most crucial part of emergency obstetric care (Sarker et al., 2012). It is the procedure performed when normal vaginal delivery (NVD) might threaten the mother’s or baby’s life at risk. CS is the instrumental delivery through cut in the mother’s wall of abdomen and uterus to give birth a fetus (American College of…

Summary In the aztec culture, parents to their first off spring will typically hire a "Midwife" to make sure that their preganacy, birth , and first couple months go perfectly. This is very different than western ideology which is, after a couple days at the hospital parents are given their babies with a couple of check ups in the following weeks. These midwives are unique because they are strangers who tell pregnant women how to live their lives for close to 6 months. The closest thing that we…

The Caesarean Section, commonly known as a “C-Section” is alarmingly over-used in the United States. While this procedure can be absolutely necessary in some instances, and can even save lives at times, it is often pushed on pregnant women who don’t actually need the procedure. In fact, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2008, the United States had a 30.3% C-section rate, which is an additional 15% above the WHO recommendations for C-section rates (Gibbons, et al., 2010).…

Epidural analgesia is commonly used to provide pain relief during labor. To convert epidural analgesia in labor for emergency cesarean section, a strong solution of local anesthetic is required aiming to achieve rapid and good quality of epidural anesthesia. Different solutions of local anesthetic are used for this reason. The optimum choice of local anaesthetic solution for achieving rapid and reliable epidural anaesthesia for caesarean section is still not clarified [1]. The solution used is…

My mom was the seventh child of 18. She meet my father when she was 16 and married him and move to Coffeyville, Ks. One year later when my mom was seventeen I was conceived. During the time of my mom pregnancy my dad lost his oldest sister who raised him on his birthdate in 1975. My Aunt Clara was my mom favorite sister in-law and that’s when she knew what she was going to named me. My mom was a short petite seventeen year old young lady. She said she gain over fifty pounds during her pregnancy.…

Pregnancy outcomes in adult patients with dermatomyositis and polymyositis Kathleen D. Kolstad M.D., Ph.D 1, David Fiorentino M.D., Ph.D 2, Shufeng Li M.S. 2,3, Eliza F. Chakravarty M.D., M.S. 4, Lorinda Chung M.D., M.S.1* 1. Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 2. Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Redwood City, CA 3. Department of Urology, Stanford University School of Medicine,…

A caesarian section (p. 65), also known as a C-section, is another way to deliver a baby, as opposed to a vaginal birth. A C-section is a surgical procedure where an incision is made through the abdominal wall as well as uterus to retrieve the baby. It is important to know this term before giving birth to a child because it may be an option you want to consider or may be suggested in an emergency situation. My mom’s first childbirth to my brother, Kenzie, was an emergency C-section. My mom was…

For years there has been an ongoing debate how a baby should be delivered-naturally or using drugs like Epidural and Pitocin. Over the decades researchers have made several breakthroughs in improving the labor process, but in the recent years new problems have been discovered in well-known and commonly used methods that has soon to be mothers questioning what is best for their unborn child. This essay looks into the history of childbirth and the changes in the labor process with the development…

the opportunity to observe a patient have a Caesarean section (C-section) which “is a surgical procedure used to deliver a baby through an incision in the mother 's abdomen and a second incision in the mother 's uterus” (Mayo Clinic, 2012). This surgical procedure is often done when a vaginal delivery would put health complications in the baby’s or mother’s life. In addition, a pregnant women can request to have this type of surgery even if they do not show any signs of medical problems.…

Surgeries also send butterflies to my stomach. Not the bad kind of butterflies either. The type of surgeries Obstetrician/ Gynecologists perform are amniocentesis, Cesarean Sections, Fibroid Tumor Removals, Ovarian Cyst Removals, etc. Normally people stomachs become weak by the sight of blood. The sight blood does not bother me. Touching blood does not gross me out either. Furthermore, it is very cool how there will be surgeries with patient awake. Being able to do surgeries with the patient…