November 6th, 2025

How to do a vacuum assisted birth – tips for training and clinical practice

Doctor Nina Kimmich works as a senior consultant and researcher at the University Hospital in Zurich. She has a keen interest in the female pelvic floor, birth tears and biomechanics of birth. She is the co-author of many publications on this topic.

In this presentation, Nina Kimmich will share her experience as an obstetrician and educator. Topics for the presentation include:

• Ways to avoid vacuum births.
• The mechanism of vacuum assisted birth
• Can we protect the perineum?
• How should we train young doctors in instrumental birth?

January 16th, 2025

Perineal protection in vacuum-assisted births

In this presentation, Nina Kimmich shares her recent publication about the use of a perineal protection device in vacuum-assisted births. The study is a prospective randomized controlled interventional trial. Topics for the presentation include:

• Why did we design this randomized trial?
• Effect of the device on perineal trauma
• Placement of the device and why some clinicians found it difficult
• Change in episiotomy rates in the intervention group