• Document malposition or malpresentation, such as:
  • Incomplete rotation of head
  • Breech, face, brow, shoulder, or compound presentation
  • Other, such as footling or incomplete breech presentation
• Document maternal pelvic abnormality, such as:
  • Deformed
  • Contraction - generally contracted, pelvic inlet, pelvic outlet, mid-cavity
  • Abnormality of pelvic organ, e.g., congenital malformation of uterus or cervical incompetence
• Document other cause, such as:
  • Shoulder dystocia
  • Unusually large fetus

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