Can Elective Inductions Reduce the Cesarean Rate?
Birthful
Adriana Lozada
4.7 • 706 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Today we are taking a close look at a recently released research, the ARRIVE trial abstract that suggests elective inductions at 39 weeks could reduce the cesarean rate. What does this mean for pregnant people and maternity care? Does mother nature really have it all wrong? Is there a better way of reducing the cesarean rate? Sharon Muza helps make sense of all these questions and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the birthful podcast. I'm Adriana Lozada and today we're taking a close look at recently released research that suggest elective inductions at 39 weeks could reduce |
| 0:22.6 | the cesarean rate. What does this mean for pregnant people in maternity care? Does Mother Nature |
| 0:28.4 | really have it all wrong? Is there a better way of reducing the cesarian rate? Sharon Mujah |
| 0:34.2 | helps make sense of all these questions and more. Stay tuned. |
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| 1:57.6 | experienced. All right. In today's episode, we're going to really flex our |
| 2:03.1 | birth geek muscles by taking a close look at a recently released research trial abstract |
| 2:10.6 | called the Arrived trial study, where Arrived roughly stands for a randomized trial of |
| 2:17.3 | induction versus expectant management. |
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