The text highlights a 5% foetal mortality rate associated with antenatal anticoagulant therapy and discusses rates of caesarean sections due to post-maturity.
Antenatal anticoagulation may pose foetal risks; Level 5 data leave open optimal management in pregnancy.
and in this group there is a foetal mortality of 5%. This means that foetal distress due to post-maturity may lead to four caesarean sections in 1,000 confinements, a figure which has been exceeded by several of the writers who advocate surgical induction of labour as the treatment of choice.
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Gordon et al. (1955) studied this question.