Abstract

THE RELATIVE PREVALENCE OF CESAREAN SECTION AND ITS INDICATIONS IN AMIRALMOMENIN HOSPITA, L AHVAZ; 2009 – 2010

Nasrin Saadati, Mostafa Albockordi, Mir Abbas Eissazadeh, *Shabnam Yousefi Shad, Mohammad Hadi Mohammadi and Minoo Pejman

Abstract

Objective: Cesarean section is the commonest surgery in gynecology and it is one method of pregnancy termination. An overview of cesarean section status in world shows that its rate is very high. Report’s of cesarean section status in Iran representative that its rate is very high too. Therefore this study performed to survey cesarean section rate and it's indications in Amiralmomenin hospital in Ahvaz city. Methods: This survey is a descriptive-cross sectional retrospective study. The data's from all of patients that undergo cesarean section in 2009 - 2010 years registered in questionnaire arranged before. Then the data's analyzed with descriptive indexes and spss-16 program. Findings: Results of survey show that the number of all parturition was 9753 case that %51/6 of those was natural delivery and %48.4 of those was performed by cesarean section. In this study %59.27 of women had a history of previous cesarean section. Majority of cesarean section indications arranged by rate were previous cesarean section (%59.27), thick meconiumstain (.5), non cephalic presentation (%6/26), dystocia (%5.47), CPD (%3.8) and fetal distress (%2.64). Conclusion: Pay off this study is near half of pregnancy termination performed by cesarean section and its majority indication is previous cesarean section.

Keywords: Cesarean section, indication, rate.