Table 1.
Grade of urgency for all emergency caesarean sections and decision to delivery interval (minutes). Values are numbers (percentages) of women
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Grade of urgency
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| Decision to delivery interval (min) | Grade 1: Immediate threat to life of woman or fetus (n=4622) | Grade 2: Maternal or fetal compromise not immediately life threatening (n=9122) | Grade 3: No maternal or fetal compromise but needs early delivery (n=3689) | Missing data (n=347) | All emergency caesarean sections (n=17 780) |
| ≤15 | 739 (16.0) | 478 (5.2) | 136 (3.7) | 28 (8.1) | 1381 (7.8) |
| 16-30 | 1398 (30.2) | 944 (10.3) | 194 (5.3) | 41 (11.8) | 2577 (14.5) |
| 31-45 | 1057 (22.9) | 1906 (20.9) | 576 (15.6) | 50 (14.4) | 3589 (20.2) |
| 46-60 | 496 (10.7) | 1900 (20.8) | 793 (21.5) | 72 (20.7) | 3261 (18.3) |
| 61-75 | 214 (4.6) | 1059 (11.6) | 552 (15.0) | 40 (11.5) | 1865 (10.5) |
| >75 | 515 (11.1) | 1986 (21.8) | 1305 (35.4) | 85 (24.5) | 3891 (21.9) |
| Missing data | 203 (4.4) | 849 (9.3) | 133 (3.6) | 31 (8.9) | 1216 (6.8) |