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Published on: July 5, 2011
Impacted shoulders--a personal experience
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.
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.

