What Are Potential Complications of a Forceps Delivery?

Discussion The main outcome of any delivery is to have a healthy mother and healthy child. For millinea, mothers delivered babies with the help of their mothers and learned women without the benefits of potential instrumented interventions when complications arose, and today they are options for some deliveries. Instrumented delivery techniques have markedly decreased maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Instrument delivery techniques in the second stage of labor includes forceps (begun in the 1600s), vacuum delivery (mainly use began in 1950s) and second stage cesarean section (cesarean section being first used to surgically remove a live fetus from a dead or dying mother). As with any procedure there are potential benefits and complications. Benefits include assisting in safe delivery, decreasing the amount of time for delivery and thereby other potential complications. Measures that help birthing without instrumentation includes continuous maternal support, upright or tilted maternal positioning, mobility during labor, and decreased use of epidural anesthesia. These cannot always be used or other issues arise during the birthing process that make an instrumented delivery a consideration. Subcutaneous fat necrosis in neonates is a transient hypodermatitis. It can occur within a few days and resolves over a few weeks with good prognosis although trophy, ulceration or scarring can occur. It is usually seen on the back, buttocks, thighs, cheeks, and shoulder. It is...
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