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External cephalic version (ECV) is a process by which a breech baby can sometimes be turned from buttocks or foot first to head first. It is a manual procedure that is recommended by national guidelines for breech presentation of a pregnancy with a single baby, in order to enable vaginal delivery.
Thus the various presentations are: cephalic presentation (head first): vertex —the most common and associated with the fewest complications; sinciput (forehead) brow (eyebrows) face; chin; breech presentation [1] (buttocks or feet first): complete breech; footling breech; frank breech; shoulder presentation: arm; shoulder; trunk
In ICD-10 "birth trauma" occupied 49 individual codes ... breech presentation;
In the brow presentation, the head is slightly extended, but less than in the face presentation. The chin presentation is a variant of the face presentation with maximum extension of the head. Non-cephalic presentations are the breech presentation (3.5%) and the shoulder presentation (0.5%). [1]
The increase of this probability is gradual and identical for breech and cephalic presentations during this period. In the third period, from the 36th gestational week onward, the incidence of cephalic and breech presentations remain stable, i.e. breech presentation around 3–4% and cephalic presentation approximately 95%.
"The Dangers and Diagnosis of Breech Presentation, and its Treatment by External Version Towards the End of Pregnancy", 1901. Tumours Complicating Pregnancy, Labour, and the Puerperium: Being the Lettsomian Lectures &c, 1920.
In obstetrics, position is the orientation of the fetus in the womb, identified by the location of the presenting part of the fetus relative to the pelvis of the mother. . Conventionally, it is the position assumed by the fetus before the process of birth, as the fetus assumes various positions and postures during the course of chil
This is a shortened version of the eleventh chapter of the ICD-9: Complications of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Puerperium. It covers ICD codes 630 to 679. The full chapter can be found on pages 355 to 378 of Volume 1, which contains all (sub)categories of the ICD-9. Volume 2 is an alphabetical index of Volume 1.