NOUN
- delivery in which forceps are inserted through the vagina and used to grasp the head of the fetus and pull it through the birth canal; since the forceps can injure the fetus this procedure has generally given way to cesarean deliveries
How To Use forceps delivery In A Sentence
- A doctor told the court she did not want to waste time and had planned to carry out a Caesarean if the forceps delivery did not work.
- It is mandatory to avoid excessive traction on the foetal head during a forceps delivery;
- Conclusion Strict indication of vaginal delivery is safe to administer analgesia in cicatricial uterus, it shortens the first stage of labor; decreased rate of forceps delivery, cesarean section rate.
- Yet, the comparative rate of intracranial hemorrhage is not statistically different when vacuum extraction, forceps delivery and cesarean section during labor are compared.
- The greatest change was associated with forceps delivery.
- The rate of forceps delivery was 12 percent with epidural compared with 3 percent with intravenous meperidine.
- Births are routinely induced and some would say that Caesareans or forceps delivery are unnecessarily common.
- Research has also shown that women planning to give birth at home were less likely to have a Caesarean, or forceps delivery, even if they had to later transfer to hospital.
- Births are routinely induced and some would say that Caesareans or forceps delivery are unnecessarily common.
- In addition, forceps delivery was not the preferred method of many male surgeons or men-midwives in eighteenth-century Britain.
