Talk:Symphysiotomy

message: Is the Ireland story is a big enough topic on its own. Perhaps keep this article as short description of the medical procedure and some history and move the Ireland story to a new article? Just looking for comments... I'm not necessarily convinced that is the right thing to do yet. —Noah 18:53, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Keep it as a separate section for now. Google news has three (1 2 3) articles from today, there will need to be a re-write to sections and we don't know if there are enough general refs that refer to patient outcomes and experiences. Some refs that discuss the operation in the third world also discuss the ongoing Irish legal cases. -- Aronzak (talk) 01:17, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

text: Many years later... yes, needs a fork. Mvolz (talk) 10:39, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text:  Coming back to this; this is a medical article and these sources just don't meet wp:medrs. I think this either needs fork to a different article type that doesn't require sources be medically accurate, or I'm going to have to delete most of this section. Mvolz (talk) 07:22, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Create a fork of "Symphysiotomy controversy in Ireland"? 

message: I'll try and avoid SYNTH and use longer quotes from the ref I added.
* "socio-cultural need to achieve a vaginal delivery under difficult circumstances" "Symphysiotomy has a role in the management of cephalopelvic disproportion, being an example of appropriate technology. It fulfils the sociocultural needs of achieving vaginal delivery in areas in which Caesarean birth is a much disliked option involving a woman's disgrace in failure to give birth in the normal way."
* In rural hospital and in communities where sympysiotomy is still being performed, it is evident that it is preferred to caesarean section because of the socio-cultural desire to achieve a vaginal delivery. This paper highlights our experiences with symphysiotomy in a rural Roman Catholic hospital providing evidence on the safety of symphysiotomy "The procedure is not done in any Nigerian tertiary and specialist hospitals. It is however still being practiced in certain missionary hospitals by European missionary doctors and their trained Nigerian doctors. Studies have shown that symphysiotomy is preferred to caesarean section in those communities in Nigeria where European missionary doctors and trained Nigerian doctors continue to practice the procedure" "Sacred Heart Hospital (SHH), Obudu is a rural 250-bed Roman Catholic Missionary hospital. It was very popular in the resource-poor communities of approximately 1 million people in the northern part of Cross River State, southern part of Benue State and south west region of Cameroon. The hospital was built in 1950 by Irish medical missionary of Mary (MMM). Symphysiotomy procedure was discontinued in 1990 with the exit of the medical missionaries, and the trained Nigerian doctors, when the hospital was officially handed over to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ogoja. The procedure was performed for mild-moderate cephalopelvic disproportion with delivery of the head assisted with the vacuum extractor. It was also indicated in primigravidae with breech presentation in labour to prevent entrapment of the after-coming head. The other criteria for selection was alive fetus, advanced cervical dilatation, and a well engaged fetal head, ≤ 3/5th head palpable per abdomen. It was a popular procedure among the women in Obudu who preferred it to caesarean section and referred to it in the local language (Bete) as “operation to open the waist”. It was affordable, accepted, with minimal cost to the patients and with minimal post-operative complications.
* ispub "There is a general aversion to operative delivery amongst Nigerian pregnant women largely because of the belief among some of our women that Caesarean delivery represents reproductive failure whereas vaginal delivery is a proof of womanhood" 
* In Nigeria, the case against caesarean delivery is made worse by a combination of the cultural perception that caesarean delivery represents reproductive failure 
* "resource poor setting where sociocultural aversion to Cesarean delivery is common" "The clear preference for vaginal delivery (90.1%) among the women was expected due to strong cultural aversion for Cesarean delivery, which even formal education does not seem to alter." 
* WHO "vaginal delivery is seen as the badge of acceptance into womanhood"
:::If it were true that it can be done "minimal post-operative complications" in contemporary Nigeria, while it was somehow impossible just half a century ago in Ireland, that would be interesting. However, this doesn't change the fact that Catholic teaching doesn't mandate avoiding caesareans, it simply mandates not having a hysterectomy where a non-Catholic doctor might advise one, so the situation is different. In Nigeria, it may be better to help in the way that the patients accept; in Ireland, the whole affair seems to have just been a failed attempt to devise a brave new practice instead of simply avoiding the unacceptable hysterectomy. 195.187.108.4 (talk) 12:24, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Vaginal Delivery proof of womanhood

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