[A new low-cost webcam-based laparoscopic training model].

Objectives: To validate a new laparoscopy home training model (GYN Trainer®) in order to practise and learn basic laparoscopic surgery.

Patients And Method: Ten junior surgical residents and six experienced operators were timed and assessed during six laparoscopic exercises performed on the home training model.

Results: Acquisition of skill was 35%.

[Failed forceps extraction: risk factors and maternal and neonatal morbidity].

Objectives: To evaluate risk factors associated with failed forceps delivery and to compare the maternal and neonatal morbidity.

Patients And Methods: In this retrospective case-control study, all failed forceps delivery cases were analyzed from January 2005 to June 2008 and were compared to a successful forceps delivery cohort.

Results: The rate of failed forceps extraction was 4.

[Is the socioeconomic deprivation EPICES score useful in obstetrics?].

Objectives: To describe a validated and multifactorial deprivation score to study the relationship between socioeconomic deprivation and perinatal risks.

Patients And Methods: The index of deprivation EPICES (Evaluation of Precarity and Inequalities in Health Examination Centers) was used to characterize the deprivation status of 234 women in post-partum in comparison with perinatal morbidity. The cutoff value of 30.