Obstructed labour at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia - April 1972 - December 1973.
Sixty-three cases of obstructed labour encountered at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia, are analysed for the period April 1972 - December 1973. For the same period there were 27 348 deliveries and 1 432 Caesarean sections. The management of choice was Caesarean section, because of a lack of experienced medical staff and the poor results obtained, together with the serious complications which follow destructive operations before vaginal deliveries. Eighty-five per cent of the babies were delivered alive. There was no maternal death. Twenty-six mothers remained in hospital for longer than 10 days. There was 1 case of a burst abdomen.
D001132:Arm; D002585:Cesarean Section; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death / Q000453:epidemiology; D006225:Hand; D006257:Head; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007746:Labor Presentation; D007744:Obstetric Labor Complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D010298:Parity; D011247:Pregnancy; D012782:Shoulder; D015024:Zambia