Benefits and risks of upright positions during the second stage of labour: An overview of systematic reviews.

International Journal of Nursing Studies
Yu ZangLihua Ren

Abstract

Upright positions during the second stage of labour are assumed to have many physiological advantages that may facilitate normal birth. Clarifying the underlying benefits and risks of upright positions plays an important role in the implementation of upright positions. The benefits and risks of upright positions during the second stage of labour have been explored in several systematic reviews, but the results are divergent. To summarize the evidence on the underlying benefits and risks of upright positions during the second stage of labour by searching available systematic reviews to explore the best evidence for clinical practice and decision making. Overview of systematic reviews. We systematically searched five English databases and four Chinese databases from inception to 15th March 2020 for any published and ongoing systematic reviews. Two reviewers independently evaluated the methodological and the reporting quality of the included systematic reviews using the AMSTAR 2 tool and the PRISMA checklist. A descriptive synthesis was used by reporting the results of the highest quality reviews. Seven systematic reviews met the eligibility criteria, of which two Cochrane reviews had the highest methodological and reporting quali...Continue Reading

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