If you practice obstetrics, you already know that our entire world is ruled by a stopwatch. Think about it: we are obsessed with time. We wait exactly 60 or 120 minutes for a gestational diabetes challenge. We stare at a monitor for a strict 30 minutes timing a biophysical profile. The entire pregnancy is dictated by an Estimated Date of Delivery that has us counting down the literal days. But what happens when we step into the OR? Once that scalpel hits the skin for a cesarean section, does the clock matter just as much? There are two separate intervals which have generated data: the skin incision to delivery interval, and the uterine incision to delivery interval. In today's episode, we are CUTTING INTO the data. First, we are summarizing a hot-off-the-press study from AJOG-MFM (Pink) that takes a hard look at the macro clock—the skin incision- ...