What does ERCS stand for?

Elective Repeat Cesarean Section

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Samples in periodicals archive:

1) When compared with infants delivered by elective repeat cesarean section at 39 weeks' gestation, infants delivered at 37 weeks' and 38 weeks' gestation are at increased risk for a range of adverse outcomes, including death, respiratory complications and admission to the neonatal intensive care unit (odds ratios, 1.

Even at term, timing of cesarean is linked to adverse outcomes

For the study, the researchers examined 13,258 women who had elective repeat cesarean sections at the 19 centers of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) Network from 1999 through 2002.

Repeat C-section before 39 weeks puts babies at neonatal illness risk

For elective repeat cesarean, the consensus of dozens of studies totaling tens of thousands of women is that elective repeat cesarean section is riskier for the mother and not any safer for the baby.

The risks of cesarean delivery to mother and baby: a CIMS fact sheet