Intervenção fisioterapêutica na assistência ao trabalho de parto / Physiotherapy intervention during labor

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

Obstetrics intervention during labor involves a continuous up date on childbirth safety. Thus, vertical positions and free movements of woman, have been rediscovered as an efficient practice, to make easy the evolution of labor. Parallelly, there is a worldwide opinion supporting natural childbirth, despite the high scores of cesarean section in our country. This is the argument of physiotherapy intervention during labor for evaluate the influence of the maternal mobility on the progression of the active phase of labor, on the evolution of cervical dilatation and to facilitate the vaginal delivery. A prospective clinical trial was conducted through comparative analysis among a treatment group and a control group, in the Obstetric Center of the Hospital Universitário da Universidade de São Paulo. The inclusion criteria were: primigravidae with spontaneous labor with two uterine contractions every ten minutes and 3 or 4 cm of cervical dilatation; with 37 to 42 weeks of pregnancy; with a single fetus on cephalic presentation, besides the agreement to sign the free and informed consent term. Patients with clinical affections were excluded. Patients were assisted by the same physiotherapist during the whole active phase and encouraged to stay in vertical positions and to move in coordenation and specially pelvic mobility. Control group had an obstetric support without the presence of the physiotherapist and it was selected retrospectively, according to the same inclusion and exclusion criteria. 132 primigravidae were accompained: 70 in the treatment group and 62 in the control group. In the treatment group, 62 (89%) evolved to vaginal delivery and eight (11%) evolved to cesarean section. Among the patients who evolved to vaginal delivery, 50 didnt use ocitocina and the mean of active phase was 5h16min, and in the control group the mean was 8h28min (p<0,001); none of the patients used analgesics during the active phase, but in the control group 62% of the patients needed farmacos (p<0,001); as far as anesthesia for delivery is concearned, in the treatment group 12% didnt use any, 76% used anesthesia between 9 and10cm of dilatation; in the control group, all the patients used some kind of anesthesia and 40% of them did it between 7 and 8cm of dilatation (p<0,001). The 12 patients who evolved to vaginal delivery with ocitocina during the active phase, due to an uterine hipoactivity, had a mean of 7h duration active phase and the control group, 11h (p=0,059); the treatment group started later with the ocitocina and for a short period of time (p<0,05); none of the patients used analgesics whereas in the control group 83% used farmacos for analgesia (p<0,001). It follows that the intervention in the osteo and muscular structure facilited the progression of active phase, the pelvic mobility promoted the evolution of dilatation and the conscious use of the body improved the vaginal delivery.

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clinical trial [publication type] labor obstetric comportamento materno physical therapy mmodalities modalidades de fisioterapia trabalho de parto natural childbirth parto normal ensaio clínico (tipo de publicação) maternal behavior

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