What's the difference between childbirth and ventouse?
Childbirth
Definition:
(n.) The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Damage to this innervation is often initiated by childbirth, but appears to progress during a period of many years so that the functional disorder usually presents in middle life.
(2) All patients with puerperal psychosis admitted to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital within 90 days of childbirth during the periods 1880-90 and 1971-80 were compared.
(3) Relying on traditional medicine, all 20 women reported eating brown seaweed soup for 20 days after childbirth, and 5 said that they took tonic herbs during the puerperium.
(4) Burns account for 9 per cent of the deaths occurring to women aged 15-49, and were the third cause of death (after disease of the circulatory system and complications of pregnancy and childbirth).
(5) This loss of neural regulation may result from mechanical damage to the pelvic nerves due to childbirth or pelvic surgery, exposure to environmental toxins (e.g., organochlorine insecticides or heavy metals), or possibly exposure to an infectious agent.
(6) She campaigns against deaths in childbirth and goes to Glastonbury with Naomi Campbell.
(7) Strategies for enhancing care involve using childbirth and sibling classes, modifying health care and information from primary care providers, mobilizing supportive services and resources, and influencing policies to meet maternal and family needs.
(8) Another example is the death in 1817 of Princess Charlotte, in childbirth, which led to the scramble of George III's aging sons to marry and beget an heir to the throne.
(9) Ultrasound and pulsed electromagnetic energy therapies are increasingly used for perineal trauma sustained during childbirth.
(10) However, important cultural differentials exist in the medical services sought for childbirth and in the treatment of morbidity in children of different ages and sexes.
(11) A history of childbirth, antecedent surgery, multiple episodes of recurrence, resistance to excisional and radiation therapy, represent common features of desmoid tumors.
(12) Contraceptive information is in special demand among women having abortions, women after childbirth, and youth.
(13) During childbirth infibulation causes a variety of serious problems includind prolonged labor and obstructed delivery, with increased risk of fetal brain damage and fetal loss.
(14) A 50.8% reduction in childbirth was found in the study group, although 77% of families had decided against further high-risk pregnancies.
(15) Third, women do not attempt to assess the probabilities of particular outcomes, but instead construct mental images of anticipated events based upon past childbirth experience and expected consequences of the preferred course of action.
(16) In the case of a curable cause the childbirth should take place near a well equipped neonatology department, with a neonatal intensive care unit and surgical possibilities.
(17) A number of factors seem likely to be important in the aetiology of the condition in Milne Bay Province, including infection associated with previous childbirth and abortion.
(18) Of the 133 pregnancies that ended in childbirth, 59.4% of the mothers felt that the refusal had been completely justified, 24.8% were ambivalent, and 15.8% felt that the refusal had been unjustified.
(19) A young girl in South Sudan is three times likelier to die in pregnancy or childbirth than to finish primary school, said the Unesco report.
(20) Queen Victoria’s physician was a great proponent of the value of tincture of cannabis and the monarch is reputed to have used it to counteract the pain of menstrual periods and childbirth.
Ventouse
Definition:
(n.) A cupping glass.
(v. t. & i.) To cup; to use a cupping glass.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of the 259 women, 117 were delivered with Kielland's forceps and 142 were delivered with the ventouse.
(2) The total number of instrumental deliveries in Group A was 2 caesarean sections due to disproportion (7%) and 5 ventouses.
(3) The result, we now know, was that the number of “complicated’’ deliveries – caesareans, forceps, ventouse – rose dramatically, and many mothers who could have had a straightforward births ended up having a dramatic, emergency intervention to get their now-distressed unborn child safely delivered.
(4) One in four hospital births ends in a caesarean-section delivery and a further one in eight involves the use of either forceps or ventouse suction cups.
(5) On the other hand, the number of instrumental deliveries was greater in the study group, 11 caesarean sections (CS) and seven ventouses, compared with one CS and three ventouses in the control group (p less than 0.05).
(6) It is possible to come to two conclusions, so long as both the mother and the fetus are watched carefully during the labour: the trial of delivery of the fetal head using the obstetric ventouse will bring about a significant reduction in the numbers of caesarean operations.
(7) The changes, published on Wednesday , have been made because women who give birth under midwife-led care have less chance of being asked to undergo medical interventions such as episiotomies, caesareans and use of forceps or ventouse.
(8) Women who had ventouse deliveries had impaired sensation immediately after delivery in the mid anal canal compared with controls and those undergoing caesarean section.
(9) There were 35 normal vaginal deliveries, 36 forceps deliveries, 20 ventouse extractions, ten vaginal breech deliveries and 21 caesarean sections.
(10) I ended up having an episiotomy and a ventouse – procedures Nice is suggesting I could have avoided if I had stayed at home.
(11) In view of the literature and of their practice, the authors advise that the obstetric Ventouse should be used in under-equipped countries where conditions of practice are often precarious and the team poorly qualified.
(12) 393 Ventouse extractions were carried out between 1982 and 1988 at the Maternity Hospital of Selastat and this resulted in delivery of 393 infants in good health.
(13) A retrospective study over a 3-year period compared maternal and neonatal outcomes after birth by Kielland's forceps with those by ventouse when there was deep transverse arrest of head.
(14) There was little early neonatal morbidity (as judged by Apgar score, intubation, admission to the special care baby unit, jaundice and abnormal neurological behaviour) but cephalhaematoma occurred significantly more often in babies born by the ventouse than by Kielland's forceps.
(15) There was no statistical difference in rates of cesarean section, Ventouse, operative delivery, low birth weight, or perinatal mortality between 538 juveniles and 5294 older "high risk" mothers.
(16) Eleven singletons (eight male; three female) and one set of twins (one male one female) have so far been delivered in good condition:- six (54.5%) by caesarean section, five (45.5%) vaginally, including one by Neville Barnes forceps, one ventouse and the rest were spontaneous.
(17) When the head had entered the pelvic region, preparations were made to expedite delivery with the ventouse, but full dilatation was reached quickly and delivery was achieved with Haig Ferguson forceps.
(18) "But so many of them had difficult deliveries, forceps and ventouse and even caesareans; they went into hospital and seemed to end up on this conveyor belt to intervention.
(19) A retrospective study over a 5-year period reviewed 71 unexpected failures of instrumental delivery and compared them with a group of 21 trials of ventouse to identify causes for failure and their impact on neonatal outcome.
(20) A failed attempt with Ventouse to achieve VBAC caused maximum maternal and perinatal morbidity.