An Interprofessional Quality Improvement Project to Implement Maternal/Infant Skin‐to‐Skin Contact During Cesarean Delivery

An Interprofessional Quality Improvement Project to Implement Maternal/Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact During Cesarean Delivery

Immediate skin-to-skin contact between a mother and her newborn has been associated with successful breastfeeding outcomes. One of the challenges nurses face in promoting skin-to-skin occurs in the operating room during a cesarean delivery. Utilizing an interprofessional approach for this quality improvement project, we successfully implemented skin-to-skin contact for all eligible mother/infan...

Skin-to-Skin Contact After Cesarean Delivery

Myomectomy during cesarean delivery.

BACKGROUND The optimal management of leiomyomas during cesarean delivery is unclear. OBJECTIVES To assess the safety of myomectomy performed during cesarean delivery. SEARCH STRATEGY PubMed, MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library were searched to identify potentially relevant studies published prior to June 30, 2012. SELECTION CRITERIA Case-control study comparing myomectomy with no myomec...

Quality improvement strategies to implement best practice in routine delivery of renal replacement therapy

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Bladder Injury During Cesarean Delivery

Cesarean section is the most common surgery performed in the United States with over 30% of deliveries occurring via this route. This number is likely to increase given decreasing rates of vaginal birth after cesarean section (VBAC) and primary cesarean delivery on maternal request, which carries the inherent risk for intraoperative complications. Urologic injury is the most common injury at th...