Evidence-based Sources

Early Screening of Newborns for Critical Congenital Heart Defects ~ Use of Pulse Oximeter for

June 7, 2015

http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/heartdefects/cchd-facts.html Facts about Critical Congenital Heart Defects as published by US Centers for Disease Control  About 1 in every 4 babies born with a heart defect has a critical congenital heart defect (critical CHD, also known as critical congenital heart disease). {1} Babies with a critical CHD need surgery or other procedures in the first year […]

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Cochrane Review – Labor Partograms – no improvement, no difference, no evidence for routine use

May 25, 2015

Cochrane Collaboration ~ Intervention Review Effect of partogram use on outcomes for women in spontaneous labour at term Tina Lavender1,*, Anna Hart [2], Rebecca MD Smyth [1] Editorial Group: Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group Published Online: 10 JUL 2013 Assessed as up-to-date: 17 JUN 2013 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD005461.pub4 Copyright © 2013 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley […]

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Labouring women who used a birthing pool in obsteric units in Italy: prospective observational study

February 22, 2014

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2014; 14: 17. Published online 2014 January 14. doi:  10.1186/1471-2393-14-17 PMCID: PMC3897991 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3897991/ Title: Labouring women who used a birthing pool in obsteric units in Italy: prospective observational study Jane Henderson,1 Ethel E Burns,1 Anna L Regalia,2 Giovanna Casarico,2 Mary G Boulton,1 and Lesley A Smith1 Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Abstract Background For women at low risk of childbirth complications, water […]

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Vaginal birth — but not C-section — triggers brain boosting proteins

August 2, 2013

By Karen N. Peart August 8, 2012 Vaginal birth triggers the expression of a protein in the brains of newborns that improves brain development and function in adulthood, according to a new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers, who also found that this protein expression is impaired in the brains of offspring delivered by […]

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Does Controlled Cord Traction Reduce Postpartum Blood Loss?

May 15, 2013

By Jamie Habib | May 10, 2013 Pertinent Point ~:~ Controlled cord traction used in high-resource settings does not affect the risk of severe postpartum hemorrhage. In high-resource settings, the practice of controlled cord traction for the management of placenta expulsion is not associated with a decreased incidence of postpartum hemorrhage, according to the results of a […]

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