External Cephalic Version

External Cephalic Version Under Tocolysis

“…This assumption that around 3 per cent of the babies will always present as a breech is not universally accepted. Fell (1953) 4 in an institution where there was no hesitation in doing version under general anaesthesia, reports an incidence of 1.35 per cent. The success rate of E.C.V.…”

External cephalic version of the term breech baboon (Papio sp.) fetus

“…An alternative to cesarean section of breech infants is external cephalic version (ECV) of the fetus from a breech to a cephalic position. This technique has been used successfully in humans for 50 years [1], with 440 papers describing the technique in various clinical situations, including with or without tocolysis and after previous cesarean section [2, 6, 7]. The test of time has reinforced that ECV is safe in humans.…”

Neuraxial blockade for external cephalic version: a systematic review

“…Of these, 960 were excluded on the basis of title and abstract. Examining the full text of the remaining 34 potentially eligible papers led to the exclusion of 22 further studies30,[37][38][39][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59] and the identification of 12 studies 33-36,60-67 comparing ECV with and without neuraxial blockade.…”