2,700 Deliveries Annually
Albert Einstein Medical Center's busy labor and delivery unit performs approximately 2,700 deliveries annually with a 20%
cesarean section rate. The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology's labor and delivery unit includes seven labor rooms, two full operating rooms
and a three bed triage/maternity emergency care area. The Antepartum Testing Unit is immediately adjacent f
acilitating immediate maternal fetal medicine consultation. An attending physician is present in labor and delivery at all
times to provide supervision and training, although the responsibility for management of all patients rests with the senior
resident for obstetrics and the obstetric resident team. Physician assistants help with some of the workload to allow time
for resident education.
Antepartum Testing
There are two Antepartum Testing Units, the main unit at Albert Einstein and a second at the Rising Sun Health Center. Twenty
thousand (20,000) procedures are done at these centers annually, including level three obstetric ultrasonography, transvaginal
sonography, nuchal lucency, color Doppler, fetal echocardiography, amniocentesis, cordocentesis, and invasive sonography,
and antepartum testing of fetal well being.
Resident Procedural Experience
A comparison of our procedural statistics with national data shows Albert Einstein to be well above the 80th percentile in
almost all categories.
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AEMC OBGYN Obstetric Procedures: Resident Experience
(Comparison to National Resident Experience Data, expressed in percentage)
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Obstetric Procedure Categories
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2004
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2005
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Hypertension
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96%
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95%
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Forcep Deliveries
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96%
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97%
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Vacuum Deliveries
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98%
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98%
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Cesarian Deliveries
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66%
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48%
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Multi-Fetal Deliveries Vaginal
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79%
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82%
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Amniocentesis
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39%
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43%
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