Pregnancy Outcome of 171 Head Position Cases of Premature Rupture of Membranes

Objective: To study the pregnancy outcome of PROM on head position. Method: One hundred of seventy-one cases of head position of PROM lying women were analyzed, including the non-PROM head-position cases as control. Result: The rate of dystocia of PROM cases were 45.61%, 25% higher than those of control. P0.05; the rate of neonatal asphyxia of PROM was 10.53%, obviously 4% higher than that of the control P0.05; the cases of premature birth of PROM were 11, up to 6.43%, and 4 cases of the control, accounting for 2%, X~2=4.29, P0.05; the frequency of postpartum infections of PROM were 12 cases, making up 7.01%, while these of the control were 5 cases, 2.5%, X~2=3.91, P0.05is of the statistics importance. Conclusion: The PROM is the cause of higher occurrence of dystocia, neonatal asphyxia, premature birth and post partum infections. Therefore, prevention measures and early treatment of PROM should be taken to reduce its occurrence.