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Shoulder Dystocia: Incidence and Risk Factors
1University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California.
Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
|September 24, 2016
Abstract:
Shoulder dystocia complicates ∼1% of vaginal births. Although fetal macrosomia and maternal diabetes are risk factors for shoulder dystocia, for the most part its occurrence remains largely unpredictable and unpreventable.

