Nowadays, the digital examination is a fundamental piece to evaluate the labor progress. However, many studies indicate a limited, subjective and low accurate method. The ultrasonography, on the other hand, being a painless and easily found method, has good reproducibility and fast learning curve. It has been routinely applied to labor phenomena studies, being named as Intrapartum Ultrasound (ITU), an efficient...
Objectives: To describe the prevalence of the implementation of obstetric interventions for labor and birth in normal-risk women in reference to maternity Stork Network. Methods: cross-sectional study was performed from April 2014 to January 2015, with 421 participants in the Maternity School Assis Chateaubriand - UFC, admitted during spontaneous or induced labor with a live fetus and single pregnancy term and ...