adamnamy wrote:
Hmm.…interesting.
Am I right in thinking the induction/augmented rate is much higher
than 10-20% here in Australia?
Anyone know any stats off hand?
Amy
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*Subject:* [ozmidwifery] Drug-induced labour raises complication risk
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*Drug-induced labour raises complication risk*
October 20 2006 at 10:56AM
Women who are given drugs to induce labour are nearly twice as likely
to suffer an amniotic fluid embolism, a rare but potentially fatal
complication of pregnancy, according to a study published on Friday.
Researchers for the Maternal Health Study Group of the Canadian
Perinatal Surveillance System studied more than three million
deliveries of babies in Canada over a 12-year period.
In 185 cases, women experienced the rare complication in which the
amniotic fluid that surrounds a baby in the womb enters the
bloodstream and causes a blockage, they wrote in the Lancet medical
journal.
In 24 of those cases, the mothers died.
The women had been given drugs to induce labour in just 17 percent of
the deliveries. But those accounted for 52 of the amniotic fluid
embolisms - 28 percent - and 10 of the fatal cases, or 42 percent.
"We should emphasise that the absolute risk of increase of amniotic
fluid embolism for women undergoing medical induction of labour is
very small: four or five total cases and one or two fatal cases per
100,000 women induced," the authors wrote.
"However, with 4 million births per year and induction rates
approaching 20 percent in the USA, this practice could be causing
amniotic fluid embolism in 30-40 women per year in the USA alone,
including 10-15 deaths," they wrote.
"Although the small absolute risk of amniotic fluid embolism is
unlikely to affect the decision to induce labour in the presence of
compelling clinical indications, women and physicians should be aware
of the risk if the decision is elective."
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You are absolutely right to suspect induction and augmentation rates are
soaring! Sorry cant quote stats ( someone will be able to im sure) as i
dont work in hospital system , but i closely communicate with hospital
midwives and they ALL say figures are escalating.As the control is taken
away even more for women and the cascade of intervention climbs, more
women are traumatised, more babies wounded and fear attached to birth
grows!And our society becomes more silent....... Wendy.
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