Episiotomy and its relationship to various clinical variables that influence its performance

Objective: to understand the episiotomy rate and its relationship with various clinical variables. Method: a descriptive, cross-sectional, analytic study of 12,093 births in a tertiary hospital. Variables: Parity, gestational age, start of labor, use of epidural analgesia, oxytocin usage, position...

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Main Authors: Carmen Ballesteros-Meseguer, César Carrillo-García, Mariano Meseguer-de-Pedro, Manuel Canteras-Jordana, Mª Emilia Martínez-Roche
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2016-01-01
Series:Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-11692016000100327&lng=en&tlng=en