Breech Presentation: Vaginal Delivery or Caesarean Section?

Tomescu Cezar Laurentiu, Rodica Sîrbu, Emin Cadar, Brezeanu Dragos and Aneta Tomescu

European Journal of Natural Scinces and Medicine Articles, 2019, vol. 2

Abstract: The incidence of breech presentation is approximately 3,97 percent. Breech presentation is considered as being “borderline eutocic” and it requires carefully monitoring both the foetus and the mother. The aim of the current paper is to evaluate the preffered method of delivery in case of breech presentation. The paper presents a retrospective study performed in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Departments of the County Emergency Clinical Hospital “Sf. Apostol Andrei” in Constanta, during a period of 5 years (2010-2014). The methods of birth were analyzed for a lot of 1104 patients with breech presentation with ages ranging between 16 and 44 years old. The total number of patients who gave birth through vaginal delivery was of 139 patients, amounting to 12.59 percent of the total population sample. The number of patients that gave birth through C-section was 965, which amounts to 87.4 percent of the total population sample. Birth through C-section is preferred by both obstetricians and patients alike, due to the fact that vaginal delivery is associated with a higher foetal risk in breech presentation.

Keywords: breech presentation; sacrum; foetus (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.26417/ejis.v4i1.p153-157

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