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Evidence Based Birth®

EBB 245 - Evidence on Pitocin Augmentation, Epidurals, Cesarean

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

Pregnancy, Health & Fitness, Childbirth, Parenting, Birth, Medicine, Kids & Family, Doula, Obstetrician, Midwife

4.6978 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate the upcoming release of our Intervention Pocket Guide, we are going to share with you some of the new research on interventions! Last week I had so much fun on Episode 244 sharing the research on amniotomy (or AROM), assisted vaginal delivery (also known as forceps or vacuum assisted delivery), and internal monitoring. Today I’m going to reveal information from the Pocket Guide on 3 more interventions-- Pitocin Augmentation, Regional Analgesia (Epidurals and Spinals), and Cesareans.

Content note: discussion of the benefits and risks of these interventions, including the risk of mortality.

Resources:
Make sure you're on the Pocket Guide wait list by going here

Pitocin Augmentation:
· Webinar on the Evidence on Pitocin
· EBB #131 Evidence on Pitocin in the Third Stage of Labor
· EBB #224 Failure to Progress or Failure to Wait webinar (also on YouTube with PowerPoint slides)

Regional Analgesia:
· EBB YouTube series on Pain Management https://evidencebasedbirth.com/category-pain-management-series/

Cesareans
· EBB 113 Evidence on VBAC
· EBB 236 Unexpected Cesarean after a normal vaginal birth with Katie Kane
· EBB 226 Emergency Cesarean with Mandy Childs
· EBB 62 Unplanned Cesarean with Michelle Wilson
· EBB 79 From a Cesarean to VBAC with Chanté Perryman
· Breech Series episodes 171 (vaginal breech story with Janae and Andrew Rick), 172 (Breech Vaginal Birth evidence with Dr. Rixa Freeze and Dr. David Hayes), 173 (evidence on ECV for breech)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk about the evidence on three

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interventions pitocin augmentation epidurals and cesareans.

0:10.8

Welcome to the Evidence Space Birth Podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse

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with my PhD and the founder of Evidence Space Birth. Join me each week as we work together

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to get evidence-based information

0:25.9

into the hands of families and professionals

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around the world.

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As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. See EB Birth.com

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slash disclaimer for more details.

0:39.0

Hi everyone and welcome to today's episode of the

0:42.1

Evidence-based Birth Podcast.

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My name is Dr. Rebecca Decker, pronouns she her,

0:46.8

and I will be your teacher for today's episode.

0:49.6

Today I'm so excited to bring to you some brand new

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evidence-based information about three

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interventions. But before we get started I want to remind you that our newest

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project the Pocket Guide to Interventions is coming out next week, Monday November 14 to the way interventions is about the

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coming out next week, Monday, November 14, to the wait list,

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and Tuesday, November 15 to the general public.

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The Pocket Guide to Interventions

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is about the size of my hand, a little bit smaller. It's about

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44 to 46 pages long and it's color printed, laminated, so it's cleanable,

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