{"id":15004,"date":"2015-04-14T10:55:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T16:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/?p=15004"},"modified":"2015-04-15T10:06:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T16:06:56","slug":"health-experts-call-for-reduction-of-c-sections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/health-experts-call-for-reduction-of-c-sections\/","title":{"rendered":"Health experts call for reduction of C-sections"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HealthThe Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), warned that the caesarian sections can cause complications such as disability or death<\/strong>, so recommended only perform it when it is absolutely necessary from a medical point of view<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The health \u00a0agency said in a statement that this intervention may be necessary when vaginal delivery involves a risk to the mother or baby<\/strong>, for example due to prolonged labor, fetal distress, or because the baby is in an abnormal position.<\/p>\n

PAHO said that the “ideal rate<\/strong>“ for cesarean sections is considered between 10 percent and 15 percent since 1985<\/strong>. The agency added that new studies reveal that when the caesarean section rate is around 10 percent<\/strong>, the number of maternal and newborn deaths decreases<\/strong>, but when the frequency is greater than 10 percent<\/strong>, mortality rates do not improve<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It is estimated that the C-sections rates exceeds the ideal around the globe. In the Americas, this rate amounts to 38.9 percent on average, according to the latest available data from 25 countries. However, this figure could be higher, because there are not complete data of operations performed in the private sector.<\/p>\n

“It is disturbing that almost four in ten births are by cesarean section in the region<\/em>,” said Suzanne Serruya, director of the PAHO\u2019s Latin American Center for Perinatology (CLAP).<\/p>\n

“Doctors, midwives, obstetric nurses, people responsible for health policy, mothers and fathers, and the whole society must work together to reduce that number and use caesarean section only when is medically necessary<\/em>” she said.<\/p>\n

PAHO said that effects of\u00a0C-sections’s high rates are still unknown in some aspects of neonatal and maternal health, and need further research about their implications.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The repeated C-section execution is exposing more women to new health problems, such as abnormal insertion of the placenta, which in the second cesarean reaches 40 percent of the cases and from the third exceeds 60 percent, representing a risk of maternal death from hemorrhage<\/em>,” said the CLAP\u2019s regional adviser on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Bremen de Mucio.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, and due to its higher cost, high rates of unnecessary C-sections can consume resources of other health system services, which are already overburdened and fragile, said PAHO.<\/p>\n

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Source:<\/strong> Notimex<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), warned that the caesarian sections can cause complications such as disability or death, so recommended only perform it when it is absolutely necessary from a medical point of view. The health \u00a0agency said in a statement that this intervention may be necessary when vaginal delivery involves a risk to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,17],"class_list":["post-15004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en-la-salud","tag-casalud","tag-materna","cat-3-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15008,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15004\/revisions\/15008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}