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Delay in Delivery: Influence of Gestational Age and the Duration of Delay on Perinatal Outcome

From the Division of Maternal–Fetal Medicine of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology mid the Department of Pediatrics, The University of Alabama in Birmington, Birmingham, Alabama

Abstract

The potential benefits to be gained in neonatal survival and freedom from serious morbidity by delaying delivery at various gestational ages was explored by examining the results of studies of neonatal mortality and subsequent morbidity published from 1978 and 1984. The major benefits were found to occur between 24 and 27 weeks' gestational age. In general, little benefit was found in delaying delivery after 34 weeks' gestational age.

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