RESEARCH ARTICLE
Importance and Significance of Knee-Chest Decubitus Position of the Pregnant Women, in the Delineation of Fetal Facial Imaging with Four-Dimensional Color Doppler Ultrasound
Homagni Sikha Roy*, Chunxia Cheng
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2018Volume: 10
First Page: 9
Last Page: 16
Publisher Id: TOMIJ-10-9
DOI: 10.2174/1874347101810010009
Article History:
Received Date: 14/9/2018Revision Received Date: 12/11/2018
Acceptance Date: 16/11/2018
Electronic publication date: 26/12/2018
Collection year: 2018
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Objective:
To investigate and validate the role of the Knee-chest Decubitus position in fetal facial feature delineation by 4D Ultrasonography.
Methods:
Pregnant women were randomly divided into two groups: One group underwent knee-chest decubitus position prior to re-examination, and the second group underwent free activities like walking for 5, 15 or 30 minutes followed by a re-examination of the fetus. The acceptability of the fetal facial images following the two above mentioned activities was compared.
Results:
The Knee-chest Decubitus position was identified to be a more successful procedure for obtaining acceptable images. Additionally, it improved the fetal position and the resulting images were achieved significantly rapidly by this maneuver compared to free movement.
Conclusion:
The knee-chest decubitus position is simple, easy, safe and fast and thus of great convenience and promising for pregnant women.
