6 results for “foetal macrosomia”
0y · Female·Unascertained
…estational age. The baby showed no signs of life at birth with a white-blue complexion. Autopsy revealed macrosomia, meconium aspiration, intradural haemorrhage, and placental changes consistent with maternal diabetes an…
Tate Spencer-Koch: intrapartum hypoxia due to shoulder dystocia; Jahli Hobbs: in…
…route to hospital. All three deaths were associated with high-risk pregnancies unsuitable for homebirth: macrosomia with shoulder dystocia risk, breech presentation, and twin pregnancy. Hospital births with continuous mo…
0y · Male·Head injuries (birth trauma) secondary to obstructed labour and fetal macrosomia…
Nixon Martin Tonkin died from head injuries sustained during caesarean delivery for obstructed labour at 38 weeks gestation. The infant's head became deeply impacted in the maternal pelvis after prolonged second-stage la…
0y · Female·meconium aspiration
A full-term female infant (41 weeks 3 days) died from meconium aspiration during a planned home water birth attended by an experienced midwife. The mother had gestational diabetes and a history of macrosomic babies—risk …
0y · Male·acute hypoxic damage caused by shoulder dystocia during delivery
Declan Brian McConville was born with shoulder dystocia (impacted shoulders) after vacuum-assisted delivery at Royal Darwin Hospital on 31 August 2007. He was stuck in the birth canal for approximately 15 minutes before …
0y · Female·Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy caused by multiple factors including lung abnor…
Elsie Coghill, a newborn, died from hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy due to multiple factors including an underlying lung abnormality from antenatal distress, an undetected apnoeic episode during transfer, and undiagnose…
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