Access to obstetric services in rural areas has been and continues to be a challenge. 4 When available, much of the obstetric care in these areas has been provided by family physicians. I ,5 Unfortunately, the number of family physicians who practice obstetrics has been in decline. In 1996 only 26% of active members of the American Academy of Family Physicians included obstetrics in their pract...

Background: Screening done on obstetrics patients is based a few scales which are not targeted towards the population, thus need for tool was necessary especially Indian population where these issues high and care provided lacks in quality. Methods: A top down survey conducted followed by brief interview. pilot study then out of specific items were selected. Results: Cronbach's alpha yielded re...

1Department of Paediatrics, Sana’a University, Sana’a, Yemen (Correspondence to S.M. Banajeh: [email protected]). Department of Obstetrics; Department of Paediatrics, Al Sabeen Hospital for Women and Children, Sana’a, Yemen. ABSTRACT We conducted a 12-year retrospective analysis of perinatal characteristics at Al-Sabeen Hospital, Sana’a. There were 62 168 births, 2936 stillbirths and 5434 per...

Treatment of moderate to severe cases of equine dystocia in a field setting can be intimidating, given the need to perform rapidly, efficiently, and confidently physically demanding procedures with which most veterinarians lack hands-on experience. Compounding the problem are the far less than optimal conditions under which the veterinarian must work, e.g., poor physical circumstances or facili...

Author details School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA. Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi city, Kenya. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California, San Francisco, USA. Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, USA. Family AIDS Care Educa...

shoulder dystocia GJ Hofmeyr, CA Cluver a Effective Care Research Unit, Eastern Cape Department of Health, Universities of Witwatersrand and Fort Hare, South Africa b Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa Correspondence: CA Cluver, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital,...

Background and aims: Complaints of obstetrics and gynecology specialist are on the top of complaint from doctors and these have been increasing with increased population and births. In this regard, parallel to industrialization of life, tendency to cesarean against vaginal delivery has been increased in patients. All the cases of complaint increased from 1995 until 2010. In mul...

PROVIDENCE – Brown University and Care New England Health System have named DR. MAUREEN G. PHIPPS the new chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and assistant dean for Teaching and Research on Women’s Health in the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and the executive chief of Obstetri...

Two systems of general-practitioner obstetric care currently in use in England are compared. In one (Oxford) a large number of doctors, working with community midwives, have autonomous responsibility for the management of patients whose condition conforms with defined booking criteria. In the other (Dulwich) two practitioners, working with hospital midwives, operate a minimal selection policy, ...