Abstract
(Obstet Gynecol. 2020;135:522–525) The practice of administering stress-dose steroids for all corticosteroid-treated patients undergoing vaginal or cesarean delivery has been in place since the 1950s, despite the inconsistencies in the research that recommends this tradition. Present-day studies, such as a 2014 study by Zaghiyan and colleagues, indicate that perioperative corticosteroids do not have a measurable effect on a patient’s risk of hemodynamic instability. Sylvester-Armstrong and colleagues have examined a number of studies related to steroid administration to assert that stress-dose steroids are unnecessary for labor and delivery and the aforementioned practice should be retired.
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