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Caesarean delivery (CD) rates are on the increase worldwide. NHS Maternity Statistics for England showed that the caesarean delivery rate had increased to 31% of all deliveries in 2019–2020.

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  1. University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, 235 Euston Road, London, NW2BU, UK

    Wint Mon & Roxaan Jappie

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine, Women’s Wellness and Research Centre, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

    Roshan Fernando

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

    Pervez Sultan

  3. Department of Anaesthesia, Frimley Park Hospital, Frimley, UK

    Sioned Phillips

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Mon, W., Jappie, R. (2022). Category 4/Planned Caesarean Delivery. In: Fernando, R., Sultan, P., Phillips, S. (eds) Quick Hits in Obstetric Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72487-0_5

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