The role of instrumental vaginal delivery in low resource settings

This commentary discusses instrumental vaginal delivery (IVD) and the issues experienced with that practice in low resource settings. It states that IVD is a key element of essential obstetric care and the improvement of maternal and neonatal outcomes will require the scaling up of IVD use with the provision of equipment and trained operators to areas where they are currently unavailable.

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