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Impacted shoulders represent a life-threatening obstetric emergency that required a destructive procedure in 7 patients within the author's personal clinical experience.
This paper provides a historical personal account of managing shoulder dystocia, a life-threatening obstetric emergency.
Reinforces shoulder dystocia as a life-threatening emergency; leaves open optimal contemporary interventions beyond historical case reports.
Failure of the shoulders to follow readily after delivery of the head is a life-threatening emergency for the mother and baby which is occasionally encountered by most obstetricians, and receives scant attention in current obstetric textbooks. This is a record of my personal experience of the condition, including 7 patients in whom a destructive procedure was required.
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Mary Schramm (1983) studied this question. Impacted shoulders represent a life-threatening obstetric emergency that required a destructive procedure in 7 patients within the author's personal clinical experience.
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