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In response to
"Induction is the first step in the cascade of intervention that inevitably leads to a c-section. -- nm"
by
Mop
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You're wrong, Mop.
Posted by
Trish (aka Trish)
Dec 31 '08, 13:59
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Even if a patient insists on being induced, doctors won't do it if they haven't started to dilate and have cervical changes. Even if the cervix is favorable to induction, doctors won't just do it for convenience. There has to be a reason like feto-pelvic disproportion, gestational diabetes, pre-eclampsia, more than a week overdue by ultrasound dating, or fetal distress. Of the inductions we do (and probably a 1/3 of our ob patients get induced) the C-section ratio is 1:15. I know this because I just had to gather up all this data for a project. We deliver 45-50 babies per month (we have the only doctors who do OB in 3 counties and 2 Indian Reservations) so I had a lot of data to pull from.
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