BACKGROUND: Increased use of operative vaginal delivery (use of forceps, vacuum or other device) has been recommended to address high rates of cesarean delivery. We sought to determine the association ...
Midpelvic operative vaginal delivery is associated with significantly higher risk for severe birth trauma and obstetric trauma compared with cesarean delivery, a new study shows. Rates of severe ...
Twenty-nine years after he developed a type of obstetric forceps, an instrument to perform assisted vaginal births, Kochi-based Dr VP Paily is working hard to train young gynecologists to revive the ...