Annette L. Briley

Nov 2, 2023 | mdpi.com | Annette L. Briley |Sergio A. Silverio |Andrew H Shennan |Graham Tydeman

1. IntroductionIn the UK, more than 25% of babies are born by caesarean section (CS) [1], increasingly, these occur in the late first or second stage of labour, when the foetal head is deep within the maternal pelvis. It has been estimated that full-dilatation caesarean sections (FDCS) are undertaken in 2–5% of cases [2,3,4,5,6] and in 15% of all intrapartum caesareans [7].