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RANCHO MIRAGE, CALIF. -- Two unnecessary cesarean sections would be performed for every woman spared a long and unproductive labor if maternal age, height, and estimated neonatal birth-weight were used to predict which patients would have an arrested labor.
The finding arose from a study of 228 patients with uncomplicated labors at more than 35 weeks of gestational age, which was presented in poster form during the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Obstetrical and Gynecological Society.
"I did the study while at Long Island College Hospital because I knew of practitioners who would say, 'She'll never deliver.' She's too tall, or the baby's too big. It turns out, they're often wrong," said Dr. Michael H. Dahan of the University of California, San Diego.
Dr. Dahan and associates found that 181 of 228 ...