Audit of obstructed labour cases managed in a rural specialist hospital in Enugu, south-east, Nigeria
Boniface Uwaezuoke Odugu,
Ifeanyi Johnson Onyekpa,
Francis Ugwunkanu Ugwu
Abstract:Background: Labour is a physiological process through which the fetus and placenta are expelled from the vagina at term. It is a challenging and painful process that ends with the joy of a newborn. On many occasions, the process is complicated by obstruction arising from disproportion between the baby and the maternal pelvis. Such conditions if not detected on time, will lead to significant feto-maternal morbidities and mortality. This experience in the developing nations of the world is a recurrent one even t… Show more
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