This Calculator Predicts Your Chances of Having a Caesarean Section
The average pregnant woman has a 1 in 3 chance of having a baby surgically rather than the old-fashioned way, and the World Health Organization considers this to be too high . Amino calculator can assess your personal risk.
Women with certain medical complications are more likely to need a cesarean section. But it’s the same with women who go to the hospital with doctors happy with a scalpel. This calculator takes into account your zip code (there are more hospitals in some areas) and factors related to yourself and your pregnancy.
For example, pregnancy with twins increases the likelihood that you will need a C-section, but smoking reduces the risk – probably because babies who smoke tend to be fewer (even dangerously small ). This is a reminder that a low risk of caesarean section is not always a good thing, and of course a large number of cesarean sections (10 to 15%, according to the WHO) are medically necessary. Here are how some of the risk factors affect your chances of being in the operating room:
Amino includes Caesarean section rates in Find Doctor search results; he gets his data from the analysis of health insurance claims. You can read more about the calculator here , including some of the key statistics used to create it.
Caesarean Section Predictor | Amino
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