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. 2001 Jun 2;322(7298):1330–1333. doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7298.1330

Table 2.

Admission to special care of babies delivered by emergency caesarean section. Values are numbers (percentages) of babies

Gestation   Time from decision to delivery
Total
<30 minutes 31-40 minutes 41-50 minutes >50 minutes
Total 65/478* (14) 23/159** (15) 9/55 (16) 9/29 (31) 106/721 (15)
36 weeks and over 36/449 (8) 8/144 (5.5) 1/47 (2) 3/23 (13) 48/663 (7)
*

P<0.01 compared with >50 minutes. 

**

P<0.05 compared with >50 minutes.