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Risk management of vaginal birth after cesarean section (Review)

  • Authors:
    • Alexandru Carauleanu
    • Ingrid Andrada Tanasa
    • Dragos Nemescu
    • Demetra Socolov
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  • Published online on: August 3, 2021     https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2021.10545
  • Article Number: 1111
  • Copyright: © Carauleanu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Abstract

The increasing number of patients who desire to experience vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) and the optimized protocols for trial of labor after cesarean (TOLAC) has led to a shift of old obstetrical paradigms. The VBAC trend is accompanied with numerous challenges for healthcare professionals, from establishing suitability of each pregnant patient profile for TOLAC to active labor management, and ethical or legal issues, which occasionally are not included in specific guidelines. That is why an individualized risk assessment and management can serve obstetricians as a useful tool for improving outcomes of patients, satisfaction, and also for avoiding legal or moral liabilities. The risk management concept aims to reduce foreseen risks and to emulate strategies for prediction and prevention of unwanted events. In obstetrics, and particularly for the VBAC topic, this concept is relatively new and undefined, and thus its features are disparate between guideline recommendations and clinical studies. This narrative review intends to offer a new and organic perspective over clinical aspects of TOLAC and VBAC risk management.
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Carauleanu A, Tanasa IA, Nemescu D and Socolov D: Risk management of vaginal birth after cesarean section (Review). Exp Ther Med 22: 1111, 2021.
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Carauleanu, A., Tanasa, I.A., Nemescu, D., & Socolov, D. (2021). Risk management of vaginal birth after cesarean section (Review). Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, 22, 1111. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2021.10545
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Carauleanu, A., Tanasa, I. A., Nemescu, D., Socolov, D."Risk management of vaginal birth after cesarean section (Review)". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 22.4 (2021): 1111.
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Carauleanu, A., Tanasa, I. A., Nemescu, D., Socolov, D."Risk management of vaginal birth after cesarean section (Review)". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 22, no. 4 (2021): 1111. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2021.10545