Cesarean section rates at al-Batool maternity teaching Hospital

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Objectives: To report the Cesarean section rate in Al-Batool Maternity Teaching Hospital and to identify how many of them were done for maternal and fetal Condition. Design : A statistical cross sectional study. Setting : the study was conducted at Al-Batool Maternity Teaching Hospital (13000 deliveries per year). Participants : the patients group consists of 4556 patients admitted for delivery (vaginal and abdominal) during a period of four months commencing from January 2003. Main outcome measures : calculation of all live births, calculation of cesarean section rate, percentage of the primary cesarean sections and the repeat cesarean sections and listing the indications of the operation according to maternal and fetal condition with their percentage. Results : Total births during the period of this study were 4556 births, 3732 vaginal deliveries and 824 cesarean sections.

Cesarean section rate was found to be 17.94 % of total live births, the most frequent indication for cesarean section were malpresentation (24.3 %). Primary cesarean sections contribute to 75 % of cases. Conclusions : A primary cesarean section is one of the most important causes of high cesarean section rate. Decreasing the incidence of primary operations will help in reducing cesarean section rate.