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• Living fetus and labor is expected to be longer than 6 hours e.g.,
closed cervix.
• Fetal distress.
• Failure of progress after amniotomy + oxytocin.
• Other indications for C.S as contracted pelvis, malpresentations and
elderly primigravida.
Postpartum:
The patient is more liable for postpartum hemorrhage, so oxytocin is
continued after delivery of the fetus, methergine is given with delivery of
the shoulders if there is no hypertension with continuous massage of the
uterus.
Marginal Hemorrhage
Definition:
Bleeding from the edge of a normally situated placenta after 28th weeks'
gestation.
Clinical Picture: Similar to that of placenta previa.
Symptoms: Vaginal bleeding.
Signs:
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