Frequency of vaginal birth after cesarean in a maternity hospital in the extreme south of Santa Catarina, Brazil
International Journal of Development Research
Frequency of vaginal birth after cesarean in a maternity hospital in the extreme south of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Received 22nd June, 2018; Received in revised form 19th July, 2018; Accepted 20th August, 2018; Published online 30th September, 2018
Copyright © 2018, Patrícia Nunes Alano et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Knowing the frequency of vaginal birth after cesarean in a maternity hospital in the southern part of Santa Catarina State. This was an observational and retrospective study carried out through the electronic records analysis, whose sample was composed of 1387 pregnant women with previous cesarean section. Among the pregnant women considered fit for VBAC (n = 1072), cesarean section was the main route of delivery, corresponding to 82.3% of the cases. The majority (85.9%) did not even attempt normal delivery and the main indications for a new cesarean section were two previous cesarean sections and fetal distress. The frequency of VBAC was 17.7%, most without complications (52.1%) or with mild complications such as perineal lacerations (44.2%). There was no case of uterine rupture. The frequency of vaginal birth after cesarean at the study site is still low, but when performed, most of them progress without complications.
