Around 8 per cent of women experience prolonged labour, a physically and emotionally taxing ordeal that comes with real risks ...

While shoulder dystocia may occur unexpectedly, there are known risk factors that doctors should consider before delivery to potentially prevent this emergency, like: Complications during the mother’s ...

Your physician may advise detailed anatomy ultrasonography and fetal echocardiography at ... home delivery may not be suitable for you. Shoulder dystocia. Your baby's shoulder getting stuck ...

Shoulder dystocia is an unpredictable obstetric complication with ... Her pregnancy course and clinical examination were completely normal, except a fetal abdominal circumference above p99. We ...

This may be because larger babies are more prone to complications during vaginal delivery, such as shoulder dystocia,96 97 which raises the ... maternal health or fetal distress,97 which might play a ...

Shoulder dystocia is an uncommon but potentially catastrophic intrapartum event. Although risk factors such as maternal diabetes, obesity and macrosomia can be identified, shoulder dystocia most ...

Women's Health. 2010;6(6):861-869. © 2010 Future Medicine Ltd. Shoulder dystocia is an uncommon and usually unpredictable event. Maternal diabetes, macrosomia ...

Reducing the maternal mortality rate due to postpartum haemorrhage depends on the ability of health-care teams to identify pregnant women at higher risk of bleeding, to timely and accurately detect ...

The risks associated with vacuum-assisted births are extensive. Too much suction can cause significant scalp injuries to the ...

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