Experts from Hunan Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital successfully performed external breech inversion for pregnant women

Surgical scene.

Red Net Moment December 26 news (correspondent Huang Manfeng, Huang Limin, Wang Lijuan) On December 24, Li Xiaoye and Jiang Yurong, chief physicians of the Obstetrics Department of Hunan Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, successfully performed extra-breech inversion surgery for pregnant women.

Ms. Jiang is a second-born mother, in 2014 in hunan provincial maternal and child health hospital successfully smooth delivery dabao, this pregnancy, pregnancy during the obstetric examination of the indicators are very good, the only thing that makes her distressed is that the baby's fetal position has been the hip position, to the third trimester of pregnancy has not changed, with the delivery period approaching, Ms. Jiang is also more and more anxious, she tried the chest and knee recumbent position and other methods and finally failed, even so, her desire for smooth delivery is still very strong.

On December 22, 37 weeks old, Ms. Jiang was admitted to the Obstetrics Department of Hunan Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Li Xiaoye learned more about her situation, immediately organized discussions in the department, decided to perform external breech inversion for her, and formulated a detailed surgical plan and risk prevention, as well as various emergency response measures. At 9:00 a.m. on the 24th, in conjunction with the department of anesthesiology, ultrasound and other multidisciplinary cooperation, the whole process of ultrasound monitoring of the position of the fetus and the fetal heart, obstetrics Li Xiaoye and Jiang Yurong cooperated closely, successfully changed the fetal position from the hip position to the head position, fulfilling Ms. Jiang's desire to give birth vaginally. At present, Ms. Jiang and her fetus are in stable intrauterine condition and continue to wait for delivery under close supervision.

External reversal is the use of the hand through the abdominal wall to rotate the fetus so that the fetal position (breech, transverse position) that is not conducive to childbirth is converted into a fetal position (head position) that is conducive to childbirth. The successful implementation of this operation requires the operator's knowledge, technology, experience, as well as team cooperation and first aid ability, and is rarely used clinically. The Obstetrics Department of Hunan Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital is the Hunan Obstetric Quality Control Center and the Critically Ill Maternal Rescue and Treatment Center, and has always taken the protection of maternal and infant safety and the promotion of health as the direction of its efforts.

Jiang Yurong, director of the Obstetrics Department of Hunan Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, said that in order to minimize the harm of surgery to women and the occurrence of complications during pregnancy and childbirth, pregnant mothers have a higher and higher demand for vaginal delivery. The implementation of external breech inversion can not only help pregnant mothers achieve vaginal delivery, but also ensure the health of maternal fertility.