[Can caesarean delivery prevent cerebral palsy? Medico-legal implications of a French ecological study].
La césarienne peut-elle prévenir la paralysie cérébrale ? Implications médico-légales d’une étude écologique française
Résumé
For a long time, the benefit of a caesarean delivery in the prevention of cerebral palsy (CP) has been put forward, which was based on the assumption that CP is due to asphyxia in more than 50 % of the cases. However, from register-based data, this rate has been estimated less than 4 %. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the rate of caesarean sections for fetal indication was correlated with the prevalence rate of CP in a French county.