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17 kwi 2024 · The intrapartum care model endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO) has demonstrated effectiveness in enhancing childbirth experiences and increasing maternal satisfaction with the quality of obstetric care. Additionally, it contributes to the reduction of fear associated with labor and childbirth.
7 lut 2018 · This up-to-date, comprehensive and consolidated guideline on essential intrapartum care brings together new and existing WHO recommendations that, when delivered as a package, will ensure good-quality and evidence-based care irrespective of the setting or level of health care.
These include the care of women with prelabour rupture of membranes at term, care of the woman and baby when meconium is present, indications for continuous cardiotocography, interpretation of cardiotocography traces, and management of retained placenta and postpartum haemorrhage.
29 wrz 2023 · This guideline covers the care of women and their babies during labour and immediately after birth. It focuses on women who give birth between 37 and 42 weeks of pregnancy (‘term’). The guideline helps women to make informed choices about where to have their baby and about their care in labour.
10 kwi 2018 · Within this context, WHO envisions intrapartum care as a platform to provide pregnant women with respectful, individualized, woman-centred, and effective clinical and non-clinical practices to optimize birth outcomes for the woman and her baby, by skilled healthcare providers in a well-functioning healthcare system.
3 gru 2014 · The care that a woman receives during labour can affect the woman herself (physically and emotionally) and the health of her baby in the short and longer term. Maternity services should provide a model of care that supports one-to-one care in labour.
Health systems should aim to implement this WHO model of intrapartum care to empower all women to access the type of woman-centred care that they want and need, and to provide a sound foundation for such care, in accordance with a human rights-based approach.
