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Civilian Emergency Platform
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Breech presentation delivery imminent — higher risk than head first.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — NOT EXPERT REVIEWED — NOT FOR PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Buttocks or feet presenting at vagina not head.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Dispatcher confirms imminent breech.
Scene hazards: Head entrapment, Cord compression
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — 112 breech delivery guide on speaker.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Mother hands and knees or flat per dispatcher.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Support baby body as delivers — do not pull.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — If head not delivering after 3 minutes — emergency manoeuvres per phone guidance only.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — 112 experienced birth support phone coaching.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Neonatal team alert for possible depression at birth.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Hospital assessment mandatory even if smooth delivery.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Head entrapment requires episiotomy and manoeuvres OR.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Do NOT pull legs to hasten.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Do NOT rotate baby untrained.
MYTH: DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Pull breech baby by hips to speed delivery
REALITY: DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Traction causes nerve injury and head entrapment. Body delivers with mother push support only.
DANGER: DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Brachial plexus injury and trapped head asphyxia.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — After body delivers head can trap — hypoxia in minutes.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Planned cesarean usual for breech term — emergency field birth is high risk.