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Re: Unusual surgical problem From: Efrain Ramirez (eramirezt@coqui.net) Fri Oct 7 18:57:38 2005 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: OB ... Thoughts" Previous message: Andrew Folley: "Re: Vestibular pain" In reply to: R. Daniel Braun: "Re: Unusual surgical problem" Next in thread: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: Unusual surgical problem" Reply: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: Unusual surgical problem" Been out a few days - Agree on Vag Hyst.. On Garry's PIH - nice job - Lost surgical specimen? - I have a lawsuit because OR personnel lost the specimen -- a 14-16 weeks uterus - nice uh? - they are now (on their 3rd amendment of their lawsuit) arguing lack of proper informed consent..uf! ef At Fri, 7 Oct 2005, R. Daniel Braun wrote: > >VAG HYST >Dan > >On 10/6/05, William McIntosh <wdmcintosh@charter.net> wrote: >> >> I had a weird problem in the OR today that I have never encountered >> before. >> Our newest associate and I were doing her first LSH. I have done a couple >> of hundred of them, but we ran into something I have never seen before. e >> lost the uterus. I mean that literally. After the uterus was detached fr m >> the adnexae and the cervix, we have to pause for a moment to insert the >> morcellator. The uterus usually stays in the pelvis, but even if it >> doesn't, it is easily located when needed. This time it was gone. We spe t >> over an hour looking for it, even placing an extra port. We rotated the >> table from side to side, Trendelenburg, reverse Trendelenberg, until >> finally >> we were actually contemplating changing to a laparatomy. As a last resor , >> we actually sat the patient upright, and it appeared from somewhere, I >> don't >> know where. Now, I know what you are thinking, it was some little harmle s >> 60 gram uterus, but the fundus was about 250 grams after removed. I was o >> angry at myself during the time we were looking for it; I thought I was >> going to blow an aneurysm. Has anyone else every lost the anatomical >> feature >> being removed other than me? >> >> WD McIntosh, MD, FACOG >> Clarksville, TN >> >-- >R. Daniel Braun >Kinky for Governor > -- "Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." - Phillip Brooks ~walt whitman~ Next message: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: OB ... Thoughts" Previous message: Andrew Folley: "Re: Vestibular pain" In reply to: R. Daniel Braun: "Re: Unusual surgical problem" Next in thread: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: Unusual surgical problem" Reply: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: Unusual surgical problem"

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