Re: Decision favors girl hurt at birth
From: Richard Kaplan (rkaplan@triad.rr.com)
Fri Feb 27 15:06:30 2004
I wouldn't mind getting cord pH's on all deliveries if it would benefit the
patient. Cord pH's along with the thousands of dollars worth of head CTs,
MRI's, etc. in the NICU are done not to help in the care of the baby but for
the defense of the inevitable malpractice suit. What a waste.
--
Richard Kaplan
Greensboro,NC
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From: "Braun, R. Daniel" <rbraun@iupui.edu>
To: "Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L" <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net>
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 7:14 AM
Subject: Re: Decision favors girl hurt at birth
> And who coughs up the $50 for each set of cord gases we order?????
> Dan
>
> "Sound is like water. If you drill one hole in the wall the sound will
> leak right through."
>
> - JAY BRAUN, a band member by love, a soundproofer by necessity.
>
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> From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Efrain
> Ramirez
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 10:27 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
> Subject: Re: Decision favors girl hurt at birth
>
> I have done that routinely for many years - actually it is "an accident
> waiting to happen" it is very sad that we have to practice medicine this
> way - but IMHO - APGAR scores will be "weak" evidence - objective pH or
> better yet- complete cord gases will be "standard" someday - I've been
> saying for years ...
>
> >At Thu, 26 Feb 2004, art fougner, md wrote:
> >
> >Watch for the cord pH requests to rise exponentially in Virginia.
> >
> >art
> >
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