Toward the current status of abdominal caesarean section

Several thousand years have passed since the abdominal caesarian operation, known as far back as the ancient Egyptians and included in the legislation of the Romans of the time of kings, began to be used on the dead. More than 300 years have passed since Trautmann, in Wittenberg, first successfully performed it on the living (in 1610). Finally, several decades have passed since when, thanks to the successes of antiseptics and asepsis, this operation, like many others, from almost absolutely lethal has become relatively safe for the mother. Under such conditions and with the truly colossal literature on the question of caesarian section - it would seem that this issue should have long been resolved in every detail, and in it now can not be introduced any more or less major innovations.
However, this is far from being the case: in fact, it is in recent times, over the last 10 to 15 years, that we have found a number of significant changes in this area. One of these changes concerns the scope of the caesarean section and the indications for it. This change is directly related to the outcomes of the operation, both for the fetus and especially for the mother.