Retrospective analysis of episiotomy prevalence

Retrospective analysis of episiotomy prevalence

OBJECTIVE This study was performed to determine the rate of episiotomy. MATERIAL AND METHODS This retrospective was conducted in 3 state hospitals located in 3 cities in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. Ethics committee approval was received for this study. Also, institutional permissions from the institutions where the study was conducted were obtained before the study. The sample of t...

Midline episiotomy and anal incontinence: retrospective cohort study.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relation between midline episiotomy and postpartum anal incontinence. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study with three study arms and six months of follow up. SETTING University teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS Primiparous women who vaginally delivered a live full term, singleton baby between 1 August 1996 and 8 February 1997: 209 who received an episiotomy; 206 who d...

[For or against episiotomy? Against episiotomy].

woman-defined identity: analysis of selected poems of adrienne rich

the current thesis is composed in five chapters in the following fashion: chapter two encompasses the applied framework of the project in details; the methodology of carl gustav jung to explain the process of individuation, the major archetypes and their attributes and his techniques to assess the mind’s strata are all explained. moreover, the austrian psychoanalysts, heinz kohut’s models of a...

Effects of combined spinal epidural labor analgesia on episiotomy: a retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND According to some published studies, neuraxial analgesia may be associated with prolonged labor and an increased risk for instrumental vaginal delivery. However, its effects on episiotomy are unknown. This study aimed to examine the incidence of episiotomy with and without combined spinal-epidural analgesia (CSEA) during labor. METHODS This was a retrospective cohort study, in whic...