The Risks and Benefits of Episiotomy: A Review
作者:
David Banta,
Stephen B. Thacker,
期刊:
Birth
(WILEY Available online 1982)
卷期:
Volume 9,
issue 1
页码: 25-30
ISSN:0730-7659
年代: 1982
DOI:10.1111/j.1523-536X.1982.tb01599.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ABSTRACT:A review of the medical literature shows that episiotomy is done in about two‐thirds of births in the US, and routinely in many settings, especially in primiparas. While episiotomy can be clinically justified in specific circumstances such as impending laceration of the perineum, the literature does not support its routine use, since it is associated with significant risks of pain and infection, and the benefits claimed for routine episiotomy have not been subjected to randomized controlled trial
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