On the treatment of labour delayed by obstruction at the pelvic brim / by Samuel Sloan.

  • Sloan, Samuel, 1843-1920.
Date:
1886
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Credit: On the treatment of labour delayed by obstruction at the pelvic brim / by Samuel Sloan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VII. That in cases of doubt forceps should be preferred to version as an original choice. But should the pelvis be shallow, version has this advantage, that if the body be born the child can sometimes be made to breathe though the head is at the brim. Craniotomy will also then be less difficult to perform should this operation be afterwards required. ' ' VITI. That in cases in which the forceps has failed there should be some reason for suspecting other causes than dispro- portion (see Prop. III.) before version is attempted as an alternative to craniotomy. IX. That the employment of version as an alternative to cranio- tomy, as a routine practice, is terribly hazardous to the mother, although it probably sometimes saves the child's life. X. That in a generally contracted flat pelvis, if the child be of average size, and the degree of contraction be at aU great, version is entirely inapplicable. A short trial should be made with the forceps. If no progress be made, craniotomy should be performed at once. EDINBURGH : PKINTED BY OLIVKK AND BOYD.
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