Maternal Oral Hydration and External Cephalic Version

University of Milano Bicocca

Status

Completed

Conditions

External Cephalic Version

Maternal Oral Hydration

Treatments

Other: hydration

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01911481

IDRI

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators are carrying out a study of 164 pregnant women, with breech presentation at term who will undergo to external cephalic version. The investigators' goal is to know if oral maternal hydration can increase the successful of external cephalic version

Enrollment

164 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

single gestation
breech presentation
from 37 to 41,5 weeks
without pregnancy complications
fetus adequate for gestational age
without fetal malformations
intact membranes
amniotic fluid index between 7 and 24 cm
placenta properly inserted

Exclusion criteria

age less than 18 years
maternal disease at risk of fluid overload (cardiac disease, renal impairment, moderate or severe preeclampsia or hypertension and diabetes)
contraindications for vaginal birth
vaginal blood loss
uterine contractions