Background: Although death rates are often used to monitor the quality of health care, in
industrialized countries maternal deaths have become rare. Severe maternal morbidity has …

… Tom Baskett and Sabaratnam Arulkumaran. The current edition sees the biggest change.
While the authors of the previous edition have continued to provide the bulk of the text we have …

OBJECTIVE: This study was undertaken to assess the safety of trial of labor after previous
cesarean delivery. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study of 308,755 Canadian women …

Methods Over 3 years (1996–1998), healthy nulliparas with no significant history of urinary
tract abnormalities were prospectively enrolled. Power analysis indicated that 452 women …

OBJECTIVE To estimate the maternal morbidity associated with cesarean deliveries
performed at term without labor compared with morbidity associated with spontaneous labor. …

OBJECTIVE: To estimate maternal and perinatal outcomes among women with increasing
duration of the second stage of labor. METHODS: A population-based cohort study was …

OBJECTIVE: To identify potential determinants of perinatal mortality and neonatal morbidity
among second twins relative to first twins. METHODS: A retrospective cohort design was …

Purpose: To analyse the historical development of morphine for postoperative analgesia
and how this development was shaped by the evolution of anesthetic techniques. Methods: …

Background Amniotic-fluid embolism is a rare, but serious and often fatal maternal complication
of delivery, of which the cause is unknown. We undertook an epidemiological study to …

To estimate maternal and perinatal morbidity associated with caesarean delivery at full cervical
dilatation, a population‐based cohort study from 1997 to 2002 was used, which included …