French guidelines for restrictive episiotomy during instrumental delivery were not followed by an increase in obstetric anal sphincter injury

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• who: Bertrand Gachon from the Centre Hospital France have published the paper: French guidelines for restrictive episiotomy during instrumental delivery were not followed by an increase in obstetric anal sphincter injury, in the Journal: Scientific Reports Scientific Reports of 26/04/2021
• what: The authors chose to exclude deliveries complicated by shoulder dystocia because the authors aimed to focus on the association only between episiotomy rate and OASI occurrence.
• how: For this study the authors selected deliveries that occurred between 2000 and 2016 which represented 996198 births from 193 maternity units.
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