International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics : the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics
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Int J Gynaecol Obstet · Aug 2005
Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative StudyRate of increase in oxytocin dose on the outcome of labor induction.
To compare the efficacy and safety of arithmetic and geometric increases in oxytocin infusion dosage during induction of labor. ⋯ A geometric rise in the rate of oxytocin infusion delivery reduced the duration of labor without affecting the rates of cesarean sections and uterine hyperstimulation, or newborn outcomes.
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Int J Gynaecol Obstet · Aug 2005
Editorial Biography Historical ArticleAnnouncing the winner of the IJGO Prize Paper Award for 2004.
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Int J Gynaecol Obstet · Jun 2005
Review Practice Guideline GuidelineSOGC clinical practice guidelines. Guidelines for vaginal birth after previous caesarean birth. Number 155 (Replaces guideline Number 147), February 2005.
To provide evidence-based guidelines for the provision of a trial of labor (TOL) after Caesarean section. ⋯ These guidelines were approved by the Clinical Practice Obstetrics and Executive Committees of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.
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Adolescents, defined by WHO as 10 to 19 years old, can give independent consent for reproductive health services if their capacities for understanding have sufficiently evolved. The international Convention on the Rights of the Child, almost universally ratified, limits parental powers, and duties, by adolescents' "evolving capacities" for self-determination. Legal systems may recognize "mature minors" as enjoying adult rights of medical consent, even when consent to sexual relations does not absolve partners of criminal liability; their consent does not make the adolescents offenders. ⋯ Like adults, mature minors enjoy confidentiality and the right to treatment according to their wishes rather than their best interests. Minors incapable of self-determination may grant or deny assent to treatment for which guardians provide consent. Emancipated minors' self-determination may also be recognized, for instance on marriage or default of adults' guardianship.