You are at a peripheral hospital with no maternity facilities when a 16-year-old obese patient presents in the second stage of labour. She was unaware she was pregnant until this presentation.
Within minutes of arrival the baby's head is delivered, but on the next contraction the shoulders do not deliver despite gentle axial traction.
List five steps you would take to prepare for delivery.
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Name the condition and state the time period in which the baby should be delivered to avoid serious fetal hypoxia.
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Describe three manoeuvres that may enable safe delivery.
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