Abstract
Between the year of 1956 through 1963, 8, 979 patients were delivered. Out of 577, (6. 4 per cent) were delivered by cesarean section.
Maternal mortality: 577 cesarean sections were performed without a single death in this series.
Fetal mortality: the fetal mortality rate in cesarean section as compared with these in vaginal delivery are presented in Table 2, in which there is an incorrected fetal mortality rate of 2 per cent in cesarean section.
Indications: the recorded indications are listed in Table 3. The listed indication, however, are primary ones, and in those which might seem somewhat dubious there were. generally other secondary indications which strengthened the desirability of abdominal delivery.
Anesthesia: the local and additional inhalation anesthesia was used in 54.0 per cent of the cases, closed system in 30.0 per cent, spinal in 13 per cent, epidural in 3. 8 per cent.
There were no deaths ascribable to anesthesia nor were there any sequalae consequence following spinal anesthesia. At present currently, our preference is for spinal anesthesia unless there is some contraindication.
