Occipito-Posterior Presentations

The Management of Some Difficult Occipito-Posterior Cases

Until quite recently, I had been in tlie habit of thinking, and indeed sometimes of teaching, that when the obstetric forceps slipped off the head during the operation of extraction, the instrument had been unskilfully applied. Within the last month I have changed my views on this point entirely. Up till October of this year I had no personal experience of the accident, but during that month I ...

A Complication of Occipito-Posterior Position of the Vertex

Though much has been written on the subject, occipito-posterior positions of the vertex offer a wide field for study. The frequency of this deviation from the normal standard is sufficiently marked to warrant us in endeavouring to trace out every complication which may accompany the position. Without detaining you with statistics, I should like to draw attention to the fact that, out of 414 bir...

Effective Connectivity from Early Visual Cortex to Posterior Occipito- temporal Face Areas Predicts Developmental Prosopagnosia

Maternal positioning to correct occipito-posterior fetal position in labour: a randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND The occipito-posterior (OP) fetal head position during the first stage of labour occurs in 10-34% of cephalic presentations. Most will spontaneous rotate in anterior position before delivery, but 5-8% of all births will persist in OP position for the third stage of labour. Previous observations have shown that this can lead to an increase of complications, such as an abnormally long ...

Occipito-Posterior Position of the Vertex: A Survey of 750 Cases *Read 12th January 1927.

with the exception that cases have been excluded in which, in addition to abnormal position, labour was complicated by contracted pelvis, placenta previa, or other major abnormalities. The further reservation should be made that the review comprises only those cases in which diagnosis of posterior position was made or confirmed by vaginal examination during labour. In regard to the frequency of...