Retraction: Management of Impacted Fetal Head at Caesarean Birth

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K. Cornthwaite, R. Bahl, C. Winter, Wright, J. Kingdom, K. Walker, G. Tydeman, A. Briley, M. Schmidt-Hansen, T. Draycott, and the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists. Management of Impacted Fetal Head at Caesarean Birth. BJOG. 2023;130(12):e40-e64, https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.17534. The above article, published on June 12, 2023, in Wiley Online Library (Wiley Online Library), has been retracted by agreement between the authors, journal Editor-in-Chief, Aris Papageorghiou, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The retraction has been agreed following the retraction of (1), a key paper cited in the above article. The retraction of (1) notes concerns regarding discrepancies between the retrospective trial registration and the published article. In light of this, the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists has determined that the data and subsequent results in the above article are now implicated due to the discrepancies found in (1), particularly regarding the benefits of Fetal Pillow in relation to both maternal and neonatal outcomes. Reference: (1) S.L. Seal, A. Dey, S.C. Barman, G. Kamilya, J. Mukherji, and J.L. Onwude, Retracted: "Randomized controlled trial of elevation of the fetal head with a fetal pillow during cesarean delivery at full cervical dilatation," International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 133, no. 2 (2016): 178-182, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijgo.2015.09.019.