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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Jun;117(6):1272–1278. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e31821a12c9

Table 3.

Obstetric Interventions

Category With fetal injury
N(%)
Without fetal
injury
N(%)
P-value*
Labor and delivery performed by 0.099
    Attending 72(71.3%) 1318(71.2%)
    Resident 21(20.8%) 262(14.2%)
    Nurse midwife 8(7.9%) 269(14.5%)
    Medical student 0(0.0%) 2(0.1%)
Vacuum 22(22.8%) 264(14.4%) 0.025
Forceps 3(3.0%) 54(2.9%) 0.928
Type of forceps or vaccum/forceps 0.0059
    Mid 1(4.0%) 4(1.3%)
    Low 7(28.0%) 127(39.9%)
    Outlet 13(52.0%) 68(21.4%)
    Not recorded 4(16.0%) 119(37.4%)
Duration of Operative delivery(minutes) 3.08 3.46 0.6908
Recorded No. of "Popoffs" 0.88 0.98 0.7273
Episiotomy 42(42.0%) 472(26.0%) 0.0008
*

Note the unit of analysis is by maneuver attempted- as such women with multiple maneuvers can appear in multiple columns.