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Management of the third stage of labor

Authors

Frank Silverman, MD

Associate Professor

New York University School of Medicine

Eran Bornstein, MD

Assistant Professor

Maternal Fetal Medicine

Director of Obstetrics

Lenox Hill Hospital

Section Editor

Charles J Lockwood, MD

Section Editor — Obstetrics

Dean of the College of Medicine

Vice President for Health Sciences

The Ohio State University

Deputy Editor

Vanessa A Barss, MD

Senior Deputy Editor — UpToDate

Deputy Editor — Obstetrics/Gynecology and Women's Health

Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology

Harvard Medical School

Peer Reviewer

Reviewers are not identified on topic reviews to preserve anonymity