Cesarean in Saint Petersburg
- Authors: Tsvelev Y.V.1, Pakhomov А.A.1, Gaivoronskikh D.I.1
-
Affiliations:
- Military-medical Academy
- Issue: Vol 52, No 1 (2003)
- Pages: 89-94
- Section: History page
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/jowd/article/view/88806
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/JOWD88806
- ID: 88806
Cite item
Full Text
Abstract
Caesarean section in modern operative obstetrics belongs to the leading place. Delivery by cesarean section replaced long-term traumatic childbirth with repeated stimulation of labor and such operations as extraction of the fetus at the pelvic end, obstetric forceps, vacuum extraction of the fetus. In the Russian Federation, the frequency of caesarean section has increased 3 times in recent decades and in 1995 it was 11%. In St. Petersburg, according to the Health Committee in 1995-96. it was 12. 8%, and in 2001 it reached 15. 1%.
Full Text
##article.viewOnOriginalSite##About the authors
Yuri V. Tsvelev
Military-medical Academy
Author for correspondence.
Email: info@eco-vector.com
Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Russian Federation, Saint PetersburgА. A. Pakhomov
Military-medical Academy
Email: info@eco-vector.com
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology named after A. Ya. Krassovsky
Russian Federation, Saint PetersburgD. I. Gaivoronskikh
Military-medical Academy
Email: info@eco-vector.com
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology named after A. Ya. Krassovsky
Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg