Prophylactic antibiotic administration within 6 hours of assisted vaginal delivery can dramatically reduce infection rates in the 6-week post-delivery period. These are the results of a blinded, ...

Assisted vaginal birth refers to the use of a specially designed instrument to help with delivery during the last part of labor. It is also referred to as operative vaginal delivery, and accounts for ...

In nulliparous women at term who required assisted vaginal birth, a non-rotated occipitoposterior position of the foetal head was associated with significantly higher rates of maternal morbidity than ...