OK Lesley - stuff to come sonn
best wishes
s
--- Lesley Hobbs <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Yes
Soo. It would interest me very much.
> Lesley
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Soo Downe" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 12:49 PM
> Subject: Re: oxytocin augmentation
>
>
> > Very many congratulations to Ellen - this is great
> > news. It seems that this a a widespread phenomenon
> -
> > I am copying below an abstract which may be of
> > interest. we do want to continue our work in the
> area
> > of interventions in so-called normal birth. Would
> > ELlen or anyone else be interested in
> collaboration in
> > this topic?
> >
> > Best wishes
> >
> > Soo
> >
> > Downe S, McCormick C, Beech B, Labour
> interventions
> > associated with normal birth, Br J Midwifery 9: 10
> > 602-06 2001
> >
> > Abstract
> >
> > A prospective cross sectional prevalence survey of
> > five consultant units in one region was carried
> out to
> > establish the percentage of births which were
> termed
> > 'normal' or 'spontaneous' but which in fact
> involved
> > one or more of a specific set of interventions. Of
> the
> > 1486 possible births in the survey, 1464 forms
> were
> > completed (98.5%). Of the 956 births recorded as
> > being normal or spontaneous, 596 fulfilled the
> > definition of obstetric delivery (62.3%, CI
> 59%-65%).
> > The rate for multiparous women was 60% (393/650,
> CI
> > 56%-64%) and for primiparous women 66.3% (203/306,
> CI
> > 61%-71%). Approximately one third of all women
> > recorded as having a spontaneous or normal birth
> had
> > experienced induction or acceleration of labour.
> > Future work should examine the situation across
> the UK
> > and internationally, along with the potential
> personal
> > and economic consequences of the current culture
> of
> > birth in hospital consultant units.
> >
> >
> > --- Rachel Myr <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I am
> bursting
> > with vicarious pride that my (our)
> > > colleague Ellen Blix has
> > > just had a paper published in the Journal of the
> > > Norwegian Medical
> > > Association, on oxytocin augmentation of women
> in
> > > labour at her workplace.
> > > There is an abstract in English at
> > >
> >
>
http://www.tidsskriftet.no/pls/lts/PA_LTS.Vis_Summary?vp_SEKS_ID=548559
> > >
> > > Ellen presented at ICM in Vienna on the labour
> > > admission test, and if any of
> > > you are attending the European Congress of
> Perinatal
> > > Medicine in Oslo next
> > > month you can hear her present two talks there
> as
> > > well. We don't have many
> > > midwife doctoral candidates in this tiny country
> but
> > > Ellen does the work of
> > > at least three excellent ones.
> > >
> > > Rachel Myr
> > > Kristiansand, Norway, practically as far from
> Ellen
> > > (in Hammerfest) as you
> > > can get without leaving the country, and
> preparing
> > > to visit her next week
> > > for a strictly above the belt day, about
> > breastfeeding
> >
> > __________________________________________________
> > Do You Yahoo!?
> > Everything you'll ever need on one web page
> > from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts
> > http://uk.my.yahoo.com
> >
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Everything you'll ever need on one web page
from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts
http://uk.my.yahoo.com
|