Abdominal Decompression in Labour

Heyns, O. S.

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“…There is now evidence that certain manipulations of the intrauterine environment can affect the infant's behavioral development for many months after birth. A technique known as abdominal decompression was invented by a professor of obstetrics (Heyns, 1963), originally for the purpose of making women experience less discomfort in the latter months of their pregnancy and also to facilitate labor and delivery. For about an hour a day during the last three or four months of pregnancy, the woman is placed in a device that creates a partial vacuum around her abdomen, which greatly relaxes the intrauterine pressure.…”

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1969

Harvard Educational Review

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its rationale: the "deprivation hypothesis," according to which academic lag is mainly the result of social, economic, and educational deprivation and discrimination-an hypothesis that has met with wide, uncritical acceptance in the atmosphere of society's growing concern about the plight of minority groups and the economically disadvantaged. The chief goal of compensatory education-to remedy the educational lag of disadvantaged children and thereby narrow the achievement gap between "minority" and "majority" pupils-has been utterly unrealized in any of the large compensatory education programs that have been evaluated so far. On the basis of a nationwide survey and evaluation of compensatory education programs, the United States Commission on Civil Rights (1967) came to the following conclusion: The Commission's analysis does not suggest that compensatory education is incapable of remedying the effects of poverty on the academic achievement of individual children. There is little question that school programs involving expenditures for cultural enrichment, better teaching, and other needed educational services can be helpful to disadvantaged children. The fact remains, however, that none of the programs appear to have raised significantly the achievement of participating pupils, as a group, within the period evaluated by the commission (p. 138). The commission's review gave special attention to compensatory education in majority-Negro schools whose programs "were among the most prominent and included some that have served as models for others." The Commission states: "A principal objective of each was to raise the academic achievement of disadvantaged children. Judged by this standard the programs did not show evidence of much success (p. 138). 1 Why has there been such uniform failure of compensatory programs wherever they have been tried? What has gone wrong? In other fields, when bridges do not stand, when aircraft do not fly, when machines do not work, when treatments do not cure, despite all conscientious efforts on the part of many persons to make them do so, one begins to question the basic assumptions, principles, theories, and hypotheses that guide one's efforts. Is it time to follow suit in education? The theory that has guided most of these compensatory education programs, sometimes explicitly, sometimes implicitly, has been two main complementary facets: one might be called the "average children concept," the other the "social deprivation hypothesis." The "average children" concept is essentially the belief that all children, except for a rare few born with severe neurological defects, are basically very much alike in their mental development and capabilities, and that their apparent differences in these characteristics as manifested in school are due to rather superficial differences in children's upbringing at home, their preschool and out-of-school experiences, motivations and interests, and the educational influences of their family background. All children are viewed as basically more or less ho...

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“…1987). About 30 years ago, Heyns (1963) described his experience with intermittent abdominal decompression in the last 12 weeks of pregnancy for reducing the occurrence of pre‐eclampsia. He and others claimed that abdominal decompression during pregnancy resulted in improved maternal blood flow through the intervillous space (Coxon & Haggith 1971; Stange & Vaklavinkova 1983).…”

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“…The three patients we describe present a new approach to the use of an old technique which once aroused much interest but then failed to gain wide acceptance. Much evidence was gathered regarding the ability of intermittent abdominal decompression to increase blood flow in placental intervillous space (Heyns 1963; Coxon & Haggith 1971; Stange & Vaklavinkova 1983; Varma & Curzen 1973) yet, the clinical results were often unsatisfactory.…”

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Intermittent abdominal decompression: an option for prevention of intrauterine growth retardation

Shimonovitz

Yagel

Zacut

et al. 1992

BJOG

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“…There is still a lack of proved methods to meliorate a poor placental function. One possibility represents the abdomi nal decompression (AD), firstly published by Hey ns [8][9][10] and Heyns et al [9], originally introduced for application in labour for pain relief [8] and afterwards in late pregnancy to prevent onset of EPH gestosis [1,2], In a pilot study [17,18] comprising 22 patients presenting with placental insuf ficiency we observed an elevation of unconjugated oestriol (E3) and human placental lactogen (HPL), both in serum, within several hours after AD treatment as compared with a control group, and furthermore placenta per fusion measurements by radioisotopes had meliorated significantly after 1 week of treatment. These results have encouraged us to apply AD repeatedly for a duration of several weeks in cases suspected as having chronic placen tal insufficiency.…”

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Abdominal Decompression

Pavelka¹,

Salzer²

1981

Gynecol Obstet Invest

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The effects of abdominal decompression applied over a period of several weeks (mean 4 weeks) in late pregnancy on biochemical and haemodynamic parameters as well as on fetal growth and cardiotocogram patterns were studied in a group of 64 pregnant women with identified placental insufficiency. A statistically significant improvement was demonstrated in the following findings after treatment: placental perfusion measurements ,^113mIn and unconjugated oestriol and human placental lactogen, both in serum. A positive influence on antepartum cardiotocogram was observed only immediately after therapy. An acceleration of fetal growth (biparietal diameter) could not be demonstrated. Frequency and severity of EPH gestosis did not change after abdominal decompression. Abdominal decompression seems to be a valuable aid in the still unsatisfactory treatment of placental insufficiency.

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Abdominal Decompression in Labour

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Intermittent abdominal decompression: an option for prevention of intrauterine growth retardation

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