McRoberts' maneuver, which involves flexing the maternal thighs against the maternal abdomen, is commonly used as a first maneuver since it is easy to do. It is also sometimes performed ...

A reference group of women delivered by McRoberts/suprapubic pressure only (135 women) was compared to women exposed to Rubin maneuver (83 women), Wood’s screw maneuver (53 women), or delivery ...

Significant shoulder dystocia was defined as difficulty delivering the shoulders not resolved by McRoberts maneuver, usually combined with suprapubic pressure, or births with > 60 second interval ...

Jan. 3, 2005 — Editor's Note: A novel birth simulator designed by biomedical engineers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, helps identify the least traumatic delivery procedure ...

Severe shoulder dystocia.The baby's clavicle may be intentionally broken to help the baby fit through. If this does not work, your doctor may perform a cephalic replacement to push and rotate your ...

BACKGROUND: Shoulder dystocia takes place when a baby gets stuck by the shoulders behind the mother's pelvic bone during delivery. This happens when a baby is already in the birth canal, so to ease ...

BIOMED Master's Thesis DefenseTitle: Mathematical Dynamic Modeling (MADYMO) of Shoulder Dystocia and Delivery Maneuvers Speaker: Joy Anita Iaconianni, Master's Candidate School of Biomedical ...

"It's very dangerous depending on how stuck that shoulder is. So if you don't get delivery done in a quick enough fashion, the baby can actually suffer a lack of oxygen to the brain," says Dr. G ...

Abstract: Shoulder dystocia (SD) is an obstetric emergency in which the neonate’s shoulder is impacted behind the symphysis pubis of the maternal pelvis. This is a highly unpredictable event, ...