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Prophylactic external version

1. Breech deliveries should be prevented on account of the resulting increase in fetal mortality and morbidity. 2. The frequency of breech deliveries may be reduced from 80 to 90 per cent by the routine practice of external version during the last two months of pregnancy. Anesthesia is rarely necessary. 3. External version has no apparent harmful effect on the mother or baby during pregnancy or labor. 4. The turning is usually easy to perform and may be tried either in the direction of flexion or extension of the fetus, the former, as a rule, being more successful. 5. The version may have to be repeated one or more times before the presentation remains cephalic. Abdominal pads and bandages are apparently of little value in preventing a return to breech presentation. 6. External version should be given greater emphasis as an essential part of prenatal care.

A Series of 59 Breech Presentations Treated by Prophylactic External Version

Corrections to "A Series of 59 Breech Presentations Treated by Prophylactic External Version"American Journal of Obstetrics & GynecologyVol. 6Issue 3Preview Full-Text PDF

Combined External and Vaginal version

Combined External and Vaginal version

CASE OF FUNNEL PELVIS WITH CESAREAN SECTION.

HISTORY On May 4, 1900, in my service at the Chicago Lying-in Hospital, I saw the patient, aged 19, in her first confinement. She had been in labor twenty-four hours, the membranes had ruptured and dilatation was complete. The unengaged head presented, mobile above the inlet in L. O. A., and the woman was nearly exhausted by her long labor. The external measurements of the pelvis were small and the conjugata diagonalis could not be obtained. The outlet seemed contracted, but an estimation of the size of the child's head did not apparently preclude its passage and, with the usual preparations and precautions, a combined external and internal version was done. The anterior foot was seized and brought down and the extraction followed directly. No trouble was experienced until the head reached the inlet and refused to enter; under the combined use of pressure from above (on abdomen)

The Dangers and Diagnosis of Breech Presentation, and its Treatment by External Version Towards the End of Pregnancy

The Dangers and Diagnosis of Breech Presentation, and its Treatment by External Version Towards the End of Pregnancy

Combined External and Internal Version

Combined External and Internal Version