Year: 2014
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: An audit was conducted in the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland in November 2012 with 47 women in early labour, through retrospective review of charts. All women were admitted to the antenatal ward at term gestation with labour-related symptoms. The aim was to ascertain the outcomes of labour and to describe the interventions performed by midwives. The most common reason for transfer of women to the labour ward was establishment of labour (72.34%) and, of these women, only a few (35.29%) needed augmentation of labour. Among the women transferred in active labour, 97.05% had vaginal births with an average duration of labour of 4.1 hours (with no augmentation) and 5.3 hours (with augmentation). All women transferred for augmentation of labour (27.66%) had vaginal births. Women admitted to the antenatal ward to await establishment of labour need quality midwifery care to make their birthing experience a positive and memorable one.
Source: British Journal of Midwifery
Authors: Sunita Panda, Cecily Begley
Language: English
Subfield: Obstetrics and Gynecology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1970036152