PMID: 18409859Apr 16, 2008Paper

Work related diseases: assistance to delivery among obstetricians

Giornale italiano di medicina del lavoro ed ergonomia
G Lo CascioD Picciotto

Abstract

In the course of Sanitary Surveillance, a high incidence of pathologies of the superior limbs was encountered in a homogeneous group of midwives operating in the AOUP of Palermo. These findings induced the authors' starting a retrospective study aimed at understanding the possibility of correlation between work effected and damage to people, and geared at being able to frame the findings in the ambit of the related to occupational pathologies. It is a fact that the positions taken by midwives in the course of gynecological vaginal delivery, or those necessary to the maneuvers during childbirth, such as the lateral or the simple and/or exaggerated MacRoberts maneuver, require substantial overcharging of the spinal column and a significant engagement of the muscles of the upper limbs. The analysis of the data related to the working load effected in the various years (number of parts/years), highlighted how the group of midwives exposed to a higher risk were those with a longer working life, this in consideration of the great emphasis placed on the upper limbs. It cannot therefore be ruled out that the pathologies encountered in the group of midwives can be framed in the area of occupational related pathologies.

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