Journal of Health & Medical Informatics

Kazuya Arata

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• Research Article
  Early Intervention in Breech Presentation to Reduce of Cesarean Section and Breech Deliveries
  Author(s): Tsuneaki Tsuzaki, Kazuhiko Ozaki, Kazuya Arata and Kazuo MaedaTsuneaki Tsuzaki, Kazuhiko Ozaki, Kazuya Arata and Kazuo Maeda
  
  The effect of early intervention in breech presentation is investigated by outcomes of two indices: the breech delivery rate and the breech cesarean rate. Historically-controlled retrospective study was performed from 1985 to 2012. We intervene the breech presentation with tocolysis and external cephalic version (ECV) after 32 weeks’ of pregnancy and compared two indices before introduction of ECV (1985-87) and after (1986-2012). Statistical study was carried by kaisu are test and P value less than 0.05 is significant. Utilized tocolytic agents were ritdor in hydrochloride and magnesium sulfate. ECV was performed after 24 hrs in admission. Within enrolled case of 478, one hundred and sixty two cases were office ECV was excluded due to no controls (unsuccessful cases). Adopted 316 cases of admission-controlled ECV was divided into two groups of ECV (245 cases) and no ECV (71 case.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2157-7420.1000151

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