Background: The vacuum assisted delivery represents, in France, the most used operative vaginal delivery technique. The purpose was to provide a preliminar quantification of the operator's hand kinematics while performing a vacuum assisted delivery.
Methods: A group of 21 participants composed of 12 trainees and 9 obstetricians were recorded performing a vacuum assisted delivery on a training dummy, the matching fetal presentation was a left occiput anterior position.
Findings: The mean movement was composed of a first phase corresponding to a descendant pull, followed by an ascendant finish of the gesture. No significative difference were found between the trainees and the obstetricians' mean gesture.
Interpretation: This is the first quantification of the clinical gesture associated with the vacuum assisted delivery.
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