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Weighing risks, benefits in primary elective cesarean issue.(The Master Class)
Ethics has been an integral part of the practice of medicine since before the time of Hippocrates. Today, medical ethics has taken on added significance, especially in obstetrics, because of technologic and medical advances, a litigious medicolegal climate, and an increasing interest in informed decision making by patients.
As obstetricians, we find ourselves grappling with a complex web of considerations. Revisiting basic ethical concepts can help us sort it all out: the need to provide medical guidance about benefits and complications while balancing patients' requests to choose their own course of therapy and our own personal ethics in deciding whether to go along with these requests.
It is my pleasure to introduce this month's guest expert, Dr. Frank Chervenak, to ...
- Intrapartum elective cesarean delivery increasingly being offered.
- Magazine article from: Managed Care Weekly August 16, 2004 700+ words
...to new research from New York-Presbyterian Hospital...delivery - intrapartum elective cesarean delivery," said the...and gynecologist at New York-Presbyterian/Weill...obstetricians at one busy New York City hospital fill out...
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...science regarding cesarean delivery on maternal request, or elective cesarean, concluded that the available information on its risks and...department of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University in New York. Although it's difficult to assess the prevalence of cesarean...
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- Magazine article from: Family Practice News MacNeil, Jane Salodof May 1, 2005 700+ words
...major complications than if they were to opt for a second elective cesarean section, according to a poster presentation at the annual...Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, and her colleagues. Dr. Lipkind and her associates...
- Elective Cesarean Found to Be Cost Effective.
- Magazine article from: OB GYN News BAKER, BARBARA March 15, 2000 700+ words
SAN FRANCISCO -- Elective cesarean section in HIV-positive pregnant...that every dollar spent on elective cesarean section in women who receive...prophylaxis, the added cost of elective cesarean section is $17 per year of...
- Women want to know risks, benefits of elective cesarean.(Women's Health)
- Magazine article from: Family Practice News Kirn, Timothy F. September 1, 2004 700+ words
...reasons women may want a primary elective cesarean delivery is to protect the pelvic...Medicus. The practice of primary elective cesarean has been established and the demand...Dr. Hill tells patients that elective cesarean reduces the rate of stress incontinence...
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- Magazine article from: OB GYN News Kirn, Timothy F. September 1, 2004 700+ words
...physicians support the concept of primary elective cesarean, the practice has been established...said when he talks to patients about elective cesarean, he tells them it reduces the rate...believe the risk of mortality with an elective cesarean is now equivalent to that of vaginal...
- New ACOG opinion addresses elective cesarean controversy.
- Magazine article from: Managed Care Weekly November 24, 2003 700+ words
...ACOG) addresses the controversy of elective cesarean delivery, using it as an example...decision on whether to perform an elective cesarean delivery (also known as "patient...and benefits. In the case of an elective cesarean delivery, if the physician believes...
- Early neonatal outcomes: study shows elective cesarean riskier than vaginal...
- Magazine article from: OB GYN News Worcester, Sharon May 1, 2004 700+ words
NEW ORLEANS -- Neonates born by elective cesarean section are at greater risk of poor...among 117 patients who underwent elective cesarean delivery before the onset of labor...compared with 14% of those from the elective cesarean group (relative risk 3.58...
- Lamaze International Disputes Recommendations on Elective Cesarean Surgery.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 29, 2006 700+ words
...of-the-Science Conference on elective cesarean surgery (March 27-29 in Bethesda...research about long-term effects of elective cesarean is "weak." Lamaze International...research, long-term effects of elective cesarean surgery include subsequent infertility...
- Elective Cesarean Lowers HIV Risk.
- Magazine article from: Family Planning Perspectives Hollander, Dore March 1, 1999 700+ words
...dramatically reduced if she undergoes an elective cesarean, according to results of a meta...newborn. The risk is even lower when elective cesarean is coupled with a standard regimen...analysts point out that the benefit of elective cesarean must be weighed against its potential...
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