Shoulder dystocia: Difference between revisions

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==Treatment==
==Treatment==
*No method of delivery has been shown to be better or safer
'''HELPER'''
'''HELPER'''
*'''H''' call for help
*'''H''' call for help
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*'''E''' Enter the vagina and attempt Wood’s corkscrew maneuver by pushing the most accessible shoulder toward the chest to corkscrew the shoulders through
*'''E''' Enter the vagina and attempt Wood’s corkscrew maneuver by pushing the most accessible shoulder toward the chest to corkscrew the shoulders through
*'''R''' Remove posterior arm by sweeping it across the chest and bring fetal hand to the chin, grasp and pull out of the birth canal and across the face
*'''R''' Remove posterior arm by sweeping it across the chest and bring fetal hand to the chin, grasp and pull out of the birth canal and across the face
==Complications==
*Transient brachial plexus palsy (3.0 to 16.8 percent)
*Clavicular fracture (1.7 to 9.5 percent)
*Humerus fracture (0.1 to 4.2 percent)
*Permanent brachial plexus palsy (0.5 to 1.6 percent)
*Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (0.3 percent)
*Death (0 to 0.35 percent)


==See Also==
==See Also==

Revision as of 19:24, 31 May 2015

Background

Clinical Presentation

Differential Diagnosis

Emergent delivery and related complications

Diagnosis

Treatment

  • No method of delivery has been shown to be better or safer

HELPER

  • H call for help
  • E episiotomy (or episioproctotomy) to increase the anetroposterior diameter of passage
  • L Legs flex (McRoberts maneuver)
  • P Pressure- suprapubic pressure and Rubin’s maneuver (applying shoulder pressure to the fetus to decreases the bisacromial diameter)
  • E Enter the vagina and attempt Wood’s corkscrew maneuver by pushing the most accessible shoulder toward the chest to corkscrew the shoulders through
  • R Remove posterior arm by sweeping it across the chest and bring fetal hand to the chin, grasp and pull out of the birth canal and across the face

Complications

  • Transient brachial plexus palsy (3.0 to 16.8 percent)
  • Clavicular fracture (1.7 to 9.5 percent)
  • Humerus fracture (0.1 to 4.2 percent)
  • Permanent brachial plexus palsy (0.5 to 1.6 percent)
  • Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (0.3 percent)
  • Death (0 to 0.35 percent)

See Also

References