Five-year impact of a new departmental protocol on emergency cesarean target times

作     者：Visnja Korda Roland Zimmermann 

作者机构：Department of Obstetrics University Hospital of Zurich Zurich Switzerland 

出 版 物：《Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology》 (妇产科期刊（英文）)

年 卷 期：2013年第3卷第1期

页      面：148-153页

学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Emergency Cesarean Delivery Decision-to-Delivery Interval Neonatal Outcome Maternal Outcome 

摘      要：Objective: To evaluate the impact of an emergency cesarean standard operating procedure (SOP) on the decision-to-delivery interval (DDI) and to determine whether a shorter DDI improves neonatal outcome. Methods: Retrospective analysis of emergency cesareans from 2004 (introduction of the new SOP) to 2009 in a Swiss Level 3 perinatal center. Primary endpoints were the DDI, the pathology-to-decision interval (PDI), the 5 year learning curve, and neonatal and maternal outcome. Results: In the emergency cesarean group (175 women and 188 infants), mean DDI decreased over the observation period from 15 to 9 minutes (mean 10 minutes 41 seconds), and mean PDI from 11 to 6 minutes (mean 8 minutes). Not only did the DDI not exceed 15 minutes in over 90% of cases during the 5 years, but it fell consistently below 10 minutes in the latter stages of the learning curve. Only 2/188 infants had an umbilical artery