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Shoulder dystocia

Australia

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Shoulder dystocia in babies born to Aboriginal mothers with diabetes: a population-based cohort study, 1998-2015 [2024]

• SA Health
  • Shoulder Dystocia

Austria, Germany, Switzerland

• Zeitschrift für Geburtshilfe und Neonatologie
  • Shoulder Dystocia. Guideline of the DGGG, OEGGG and SGGG (S2k-Level, AWMF Registry No. 015/098, 10/2024) [2025]

Brazil

• Federação Brasileira das Associações de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
  • Management of shoulder dystocia [2022]

Canada

• Perinatal Services BC
  • Shoulder Dystocia

Denmark

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • Incidence of shoulder dystocia and risk factors for recurrence in the subsequent pregnancy-A historical register-based cohort study [2024]

Finland

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • Rising trends in the incidence of shoulder dystocia and development of a novel shoulder dystocia risk score tool: a nationwide population-based study of 800 484 Finnish deliveries [2021]

International

• European Journal of Midwifery
  • Overview of techniques to manage shoulder dystocia during vaginal birth [2021]

• Médecins Sans Frontières
  • Shoulder dystocia [2019]

Ireland

• Ireland's Health Services
  • Guideline for the Management of Shoulder Dystocia [2018]

Malaysia

• Medical Journal of Malaysia
  • Training and testing of integrated professional skills in management of shoulder dystocia among Malaysian Health Care Providers [2025]

Netherlands

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • Shoulder dystocia in primary midwifery care in the Netherlands [2016]

New Zealand

• Health New Zealand
  • Shoulder Dystocia [2023]

Norway

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • Shoulder dystocia by severity in families: A nationwide population study [2024]
  • Risk of shoulder dystocia: associations with parity and offspring birthweight. A population study of 1 914 544 deliveries [2012]

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Reverse Løvset maneuver for shoulder dystocia [2025]

Oman

• Ministry of Health Oman
  • Shoulder Dystocia

Sri Lanka

• Sri Lanka College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
  • Shoulder dystocia [2021]

Sweden

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • Increased incidence of shoulder dystocia but a declining incidence of obstetric brachial plexus palsy in vaginally delivered infants [2023]

Trinidad and Tobago

• Ministry of Health Trinidad and Tobago
  • The Management of Shoulder Dystocia [2019]

United Kingdom

• BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Is It Cost-Effective to Induce Labour Early to Prevent Shoulder Dystocia? Evidence From the Big Baby Trial [2025]

• Lancet
  • Induction of labour versus standard care to prevent shoulder dystocia in fetuses suspected to be large for gestational age in the UK (the Big Baby trial): a multicentre, open-label, randomised controlled trial [2025]

• Right Decisions
  • Shoulder Dystocia

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Shoulder dystocia [2012]

• WISDOM
  • Guideline for the Management of Shoulder Dystocia [2024]

United States

• American Family Physician
  • Shoulder Dystocia: Managing an Obstetric Emergency [2020]

• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Fetal Growth Biometry as Predictors of Shoulder Dystocia in a Low-Risk Obstetrical Population [2024]

• Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • A Comparison of Obstetric Maneuvers for the Acute Management of Shoulder Dystocia [2011]

• StatPearls
  • Shoulder Dystocia

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