BIOMECHANICS OF BIRTH INJURY TO THE BABY DURING CESAREAN OPERATION

Growth of forensic examinations in criminal and civil cases for low-quality obstetric care has been registered. The index of operative accouchement in the country grew by 17.5% in 2001 and in 2012 amounted to 159.1 per 1000 births. The most frequently used by caesarean operation is an operation in the lower uterine segment crosssectional. All classic manipulation of extracting the baby cause the compression of the head as the between subjects with the prevailing contact surface (inner surface of the hands of an obstetrician) and a limited-contact surface (fingers of an obstetrician). The stronger the pressure on the head, the more distortion can be formed by classical brain injury of compression. During emergency cesarean operation with the baby’s head getting stuck in a narrow part of the pelvis is sometimes applied squeezing the baby’s head through the vagina into the uterus, which further deforms the nape joint and local pressure on the parietal bones can lead to their linear fractures. Classic manipulation of obstetrician’s hands when removing the baby’s head during a cesarean operation may cause deformation of the baby’s head and to traumatic spinal injury. To identify the mechanism of injury requires careful analysis of the entire delivery period and comparing it with the neurosonography, MRI, CT, X-ray of the skull and spine. The analysis is based on the physiological characteristics of the baby and newborn.

birth injury, cesarean operation, biomechanics