Warm compresses vs control (hands off or no warm compress)
Episiotomy · pregnant women expecting a vaginal birth, singleton vertex presentation at term, with no medical complications
Warm compresses showed no clear difference in episiotomy compared with control (hands off or no warm compress) (low certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
- Perineal techniques during the second stage of labour for reducing perineal trauma 2017 · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyRR 0.86 [0.6, 1.23]4 studies · 1799 participantsLow