Maternal and neonatal outcome of ventouse delivery at Ayub teaching hospital, Abbottabad during the year 2005 to 2006

ABSTRACT

To study the maternal and neonatal outcome of assisted vaginal delivery with vacuum extractor [ventouse]. This prospective study conducted in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology. Unit A, Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabd included hundred consecutive cases of successful ventouse deliveries from May 2005 to April 2006. There were minimum [16%] maternal and neonatal complications during this study. As no serious maternal and neonatal morbidity noted during the study period, vacuum extractor should be the instrument of first choice for instrumental vaginal delivery