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
>
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