{"id":275,"date":"2019-12-06T17:02:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csections.org\/?p=275"},"modified":"2019-11-11T13:52:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T13:52:30","slug":"smartphone-app-reduces-hopsital-stay-after-caesarean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csections.org\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone app. reduces hopsital stay after caesarean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20170127\/Smartphone-app-reduces-length-of-hospital-stay-after-delivery-for-C-section-patients.aspx\">A mobile phone app claims<\/a><\/span> to improve the caesarean birth experience, reducing the average time a woman will stay in hospital after surgery from3.7 to 2.7 days.<\/p>\n<p>The mobile phone app, trialled in the US by Dr Attila Kett at Saint Peter&#8217;s University Hospital, New Brunswick, found that using it for a period of weeks before and after surgery reduced the duration of women&#8217;s hospital stay. And early results suggest it may also positively impact upon &#8220;surgical site infections, urinary tract infections and patient satisfaction&#8221;. The study is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The app empowers women by putting them in control of their health care needs,&#8221;<\/em> said Dr. Kett. By offering prompts about appointments, providing pre-surgery information to their palm and prompts about timely medication post operatively it is thought users feel more confident in the process and more likely to monitor their condition effectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mobile phone app claims to improve the caesarean birth experience, reducing the average time a woman will stay in hospital after surgery from3.7 to 2.7 days. The mobile phone app, trialled in the US by Dr Attila Kett at Saint Peter&#8217;s University Hospital, New Brunswick, found that using it for a period of weeks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csections.org\/?p=275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Smartphone app. reduces hopsital stay after caesarean&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csections.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.csections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csections.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csections.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csections.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}