Background: External cephalic version (ECV) is recommended by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to convert a breech fetus to vertex position and reduce the need for cesarean ...

The ECV procedure also carries risk and is expensive to carry out, it says, so there is a need to predict which patients with AFib are most suitable for this type of treatment. If effective the ...

[39] Mauldin et al found that ECV saved $2,462 for each successful ... in our model because of the demonstrated high risk of the procedure over cesarean breech delivery and it not being undertaken ...