Timing of episiotomy and outcome of a non-instrumental vaginal delivery.

Zdenek Rusavy Jaroslava Karbanova Vladimir Kalis

Published in: Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica (2015)

Our results suggest that episiotomy performed at crowning is not associated with worse anatomical or functional delivery outcome, and support a restrictive approach to episiotomy. The effect of episiotomy timing on pelvic organ prolapse development remains to be determined.

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