Shoulder Dystocia Shoulder dystocia is an obstetric emergency and is defined as a delivery that requires additional obstetric maneuvers to release the baby’s shoulders after gentle downward traction (normally performed in all deliveries) has failed. It can be either anterior (the baby’s anterior shoulder impacted on the mother’s pelvic bone) or posterior (the baby’s posterior…
Introduction A defect or injury are potentially confusing terms used when childbirth goes wrong but they are not one and the same. The difference lies in how they develop. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), birth defects usually develop within the baby’s first three months in the womb and are affected…
According to the CDC, each year in the United States, approximately 700 people die during pregnancy or in the year after and two-in-three of these deaths are preventable. Another 50,000 females each year have unexpected outcomes of labor and delivery with serious health consequences. Despite advances in medical care in the United States, stark racial…
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Misdiagnosis is when the wrong diagnosis has been given to a patient by a doctor. This may lead to complications caused by; not administering any treatment, administering the wrong treatment and/or delaying the appropriate treatment you should be receiving.
