Problem: You are a nursing student at labour suite in your 3rd year, and a 34 year old pregnant mother at term is brought to your labour suite with labour-like pains and waters broke. The senior midwife examines the mother and tells you to prepare the delivery tray as the mother was already in second stage of labour. As you are delivering this mother, the midwife urges you to follow the mechanisms of labour especially after delivery of the fetal head to prevent injury to a nerve plexus located within the root of the neck.
a) Describe the anatomy of the nerve plexus that the midwife was talking about. ? Need Assignment Help?
b) Explain the injuries that could result if this plexus was injured during parturition and how they manifest clinically.