Emergency versus Elective Cervical Cerclage: An Audit of Our First Two Years of Service

Table 1

Maternal demographics.

	All Cerclage (n=39)	Elective Cerclage (n=26)	Emergency Cerclage (n=13)	P-Value (Elective vs Emergency)
Mean maternal age	31.3	31.7	30.6
Mean gravidity	4.0	4.0	3.7
Mean parity	1.7	1.7	2.0
Mean BMI (kg/m^2)	27.3	27.0	27.8
Risk Factors ()
MTL	27 (69.2)	20 (76.9)	7 (53.8)	0.16
PTL	7 (17.9)	7 (26.9)	0 (0)	0.07
Cervical surgery	9 (23.1)	6(23.1)	3 (23.1)	1.0
Uterine	2 (5.1)	2 (7.7)	0 (0)	0.543

MTL: midtrimester loss.
PTL: preterm loss.
Uterine: uterine congenital malformations.