Labor, delivery, postpartum

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Dystocia

Australia

• SA Health
  • Unstable lie of the fetus
  • Delays in the second stage of labour

Ethiopia

• PLoS ONE
  • Obstructed labor and its effect on adverse maternal and fetal outcomes in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

• Reproductive Health
  • Incidence, causes, and maternofetal outcomes of obstructed labor in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]

Europe

• European Association of Perinatal Medicine
  • European guidelines on management of arrested or protracted labor in nulliparous women [2025]

Europe, United States

• Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
  • Maternal factors associated with labor dystocia in low-risk nulliparous women. A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

International

• BMC Public Health
  • The global burden, risk and inequality of maternal obstructed labor and uterine rupture from 1990 to 2019 [2024]

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Maternal postures for fetal malposition in labour for improving the health of mothers and their infants [2022]

• Médecins Sans Frontières
  • Labour dystocia and malpresentations [2019]

• Vaccine
  • Dysfunctional labor: Case definition & guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of immunization safety data [2017]

• World Association of Perinatal Medicine
  • Ultrasound in labor: clinical practice guideline and recommendation by the WAPM-World Association of Perinatal Medicine and the PMF-Perinatal Medicine Foundation [2022]

Low and middle income countries

• Reproductive Health
  • A prospective population-based study of maternal, fetal, and neonatal outcomes in the setting of prolonged labor, obstructed labor and failure to progress in low- and middle-income countries [2015]

United States

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Labor Dystocia [2020]

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • First and Second Stage Labor Management: ACOG Clinical Practice Guideline No. 8 [2024]

• American Family Physician
  • Labor Dystocia in Nulliparous Patients [2021]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Managing prolonged and obstructed labour [2008]
  • Obstructed labour

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