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.
D036861:Delivery, Obstetric; D004420:Dystocia / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D004630:Emergencies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy