by Jen Kamel | Sep 8, 2009 | An inside perspective, Evidence based medicine, Hospital birth, Informed consent, Legal Issues, Planning your vbac, Resources for unsupportive family members, VBAC, VBAC Bans
Q: Don’t hospitals ban VBAC because it is dangerous? A: They ban VBACs under the guise of patient safety. But patient safety is a euphemism for “we don’t have a good evidence-based reason to do it, other than we don’t want to get sued, it’s more expedient, and we make more money from c-sections—the hospital does, not necessarily the physician, but the hospital does—so we’re going to ban it because it’s easier for us, and we’re going to say it’s for patient safety because of the risk of rupturing the uterus.”
by Jen Kamel | Sep 12, 2008 | Cesarean section, Evidence based medicine, Inductions, Infant Outcomes, Large/macrosomic babies, Maternal Outcomes, Resources for unsupportive family members, Uterine Rupture, VBAC
March 2005, the American Academy of Family Physicians published an evidence based clinical practice guideline on TOLAC (Trial of Labor After Cesarean; formerly called Trial of Labor Versus Elective Repeat Cesarean Section for the Woman With a Previous Cesarean Section). The AAFP guideline recommends offering a trial of labor to women who have had one previous cesarean delivery with a low transverse incision.
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