Pendulun Leverage of the Obstetric Forceps

Simulating Obstetric Forceps Delivery in an Augmented Environment

During the process of human childbirth, obstetric forceps delivery is a justified alternative to Caesarean section when normal vaginal delivery proves difficult or impossible. Currently, training of forceps interventions is done directly on patients due to the lack of realistic training facilities. The research presented in this paper demonstrates a first implementation of an obstetric forceps ...

The Management of Obstetric Difficulties

now passed through the fourth edition. Its special feature is that a great number of new developments in obstetric practice has been elaborately dealt with. It is not possible to single out any special chapter for appreciation. Various subjects of great practical importance, for example the management of cases of haemorrhage in the various stages of pregnancy and labour, the technique of everyd...

Removal of impacted rectal foreign body with obstetric forceps.

Mode of Vaginal Delivery: A Modifiable Intrapartum Risk Factor for Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury

The aim of this study was to analyze the comparative risks of this anal sphincter injury in relation to the type of intervention in vaginal delivery. We performed an observational, retrospective study of all vaginal deliveries attended at a tertiary university hospital between January 2006 and December 2009. We analyzed the incidence of obstetric anal sphincter injury for each mode of vaginal d...

Lumbar disc protrusions in pregnancy.

The occurence of paralysis of a lower limb of the mother after labour was first described at least 120 years ago (von Basedow, 1838). The condition is uncommon, Beattie (1933) reporting an incidence of less than 1 in 2,500 deliveries. This "maternal obstetrical palsy", as it has been named, has usually been considered to result from injury to the lumbosacral plexus occasioned by the foetal head...