Determining the Prevalence and Causes of Cesarean Section in the Ahvaz Amir-a-lmomenin Hospital affiliated to the Social Security Organization in 2009

Nasrin Saadati; Mostafa Albokordi; Mohamad Hadi Mohamadi

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Determining the Prevalence and Causes of Cesarean Section in the Ahvaz Amir-a-lmomenin Hospital affiliated to the Social Security Organization in 2009

Volume 8, Number 2

Nasrin Saadati^1*, Mostafa Albokordi² and Mohamad Hadi Mohamadi³

¹Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Fertility and Infertility Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran. ²Social Medicine Department, Medical School, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran. ³School of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.13005/bpj/873

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ABSTRACT:

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. The published reports of cesarean status in Iran also indicate very high rate. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate cesarean section rate and the main influencing factors among patients referred to Amiralmomenin Hospital in Ahvaz, Iran. This is a descriptive and cross sectional retrospective study. The data’s from all of patients that undergo cesarean section in year 2009 registered in questionnaire arranged before. Then the data’s analyzed with descriptive indexes and spss-16 program. Of 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 meconium stain (11.5%), non-cephalic presentation (6.26%), dystocia (5.47%), CPD (3.8%) and fetal distress (2.64%). Near half of pregnancy termination is performed by cesarean section where the most common cause of this rate is previous history of cesarean section.

KEYWORDS:

Cesarean section; Indication; Rate