Operative vaginal delivery (OVD) is considered safe if carried out by trained personnel. However, opportunities for training in OVD have declined and, given these shifts in practice, the safety of OVD is unknown.
This project aims to describe the incidence of maternal and neonatal trauma following OVD in Canada and to quantify the variability in trauma rates by instrument, region, level of obstetric care and institutional OVD volume.
Maternal and neonatal trauma following operative vaginal delivery
Giulia M Muraca, Amélie Boutin, Neda Razaz, Sarla Lisonkova, Sid John, Joseph Y Ting, Heather Scott, Michael S Kramer, KS Joseph
Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 194(1), 2022, pp. E1-E12
Giulia M Muraca, Sarka Lisonkova, Amelie Boutin, Neda Razaz, Sid John, KS Joseph
Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada, vol. 44(5), 2022, p. 621
The authors reply regarding transparency, balance and perspective on intervention at full dilation
Giulia M Muraca, Sarka Lisonkova, KS Joseph
Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 194(34), 2022, pp. E1174