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Lynn D. Montgomery, M.D.
Maternal-Fetal Medicine, OB/GYN
Rocky Mountain Women's Health
2835 Fort Missoula Rd., Suite 304
Missoula, Montana, 59804
406-549-0978
fax 406-549-0987
e-mail: apgar10@montanadsl.net
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From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Jane Wines
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 9:30 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
Subject: Breech birth conference
Dear All
I havent posted on here for a very long time, so I hope you will forgive me
jumping in with this post. We are very excited about this conference and
hope for a good attendance from around the world as well as North America.
2005 BREECH BIRTH CONFERENCE
INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON VAGINAL BIRTH - A SAFE OPTION FOR BREECH
PRESENTING BABIES?
We are pleased to announce this exciting and challenging conference, to be
held in Vancouver, B.C. on October 8th and 9th 2005
AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE: To bring together practitioners from around the
world, to discuss issues surrounding breech birth, both in the past and for
the future. Past research will be examined and new research presented. The
conference aims to examine the safety of vaginal breech birth from a
multi-disciplinary perspective, and make recommendations for future practice
and training.
Experienced doctors and midwives will discuss their current management of
breech births, using both presentations and workshop format. There will be
new research from Europe presented that may challenge the current view that
caesarean section is the safest mode of delivery, and review of the latest
information from the term breech trial.
If you have interest in any of the following, and would like to considered
for either presentation to the main conference, running of a workshop or
poster presentation, please reply to the address below.
Abstracts for consideration by May 1st 2005.
1) Is it safe to offer vaginal breech birth? - current practice, recent
research, past research discussed.
2) What are the hurdles to providing safe vaginal birth as an option? -
training, where is the experience, should we offer it?
3) Who should attend the birth? - high risk obstetrics or variation on
normal
4) The future - is there a safe and feasible research design structure?
5) techniques for vaginal birth - who is suitable, differing techniques
6) the mother's point of view - what do women want and why, how do we
present balanced accurate information?
Abstracts to be submitted electronically to jane.wines@telus.net or hard
copy to Jane Wines RM c/o labour and delivery suite BC Women's Hospital 4500
Oak Street Vancouver BC V6H 3N1 Canada
