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Decision-to-delivery interval

The time from the clinician’s decision that cesarean birth is needed until the baby is delivered.

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What happens in emergency cesarean and timing

What happens in emergency cesarean and timing

What emergency cesarean means An emergency cesarean is an unplanned cesarean delivery performed because continuing pregnancy or labor is judged to carry a higher risk than proceeding to surgical birth. The word emergency can describe a wide range of situations. Some are truly time-critical, such as severe fetal bradycardia, major placental bleeding, uterine rupture, or […]