External cephalic version, or ECV, is a maneuver your doctor may use when your unborn baby is set up to come out bottom first or feet first. Those positions are called a breech birth, and they can ...

At 37 weeks of pregnancy, your nerves have probably kicked into high gear. Everyone is buoyed by your excitement as you enter the final weeks of pregnancy. But during one of those routine obstetrician ...

Hamilton, ON (July 11, 2007) -- An international study led by a McMaster researcher aims to determine if a manual procedure to turn breech babies in the uterus can result in fewer births by caesarean ...

To determine the odds of cesarean, operative vaginal delivery and vaginal birth after cesarean after successful external cephalic version (ECV) compared with singleton pregnancies eligible for a trial ...

The estimated baseline cost for ECV equaled $1,024 (Table 4). Assuming a 58% chance of successful ECV, ECV resulted in an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of $7,900/QALY in our base case when ...

The authors matched 197 women who had undergone successful ECV with the next 2 women of similar parity, gestational age, delivery history and type of labor who presented for labor management. They ...

In case of breech presentation after 35 weeks, health care providers often try to manually guide the fetus into the right position for birth or the head-down position. This procedure of turning a ...

From society's perspective, ECV trial is cost-effective when compared to a scheduled cesarean for breech presentation provided the probability of successful ECV is > 32%. Improved algorithms ...