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Re: MOther Survives, But Baby Dies ... From: Raymond Stephen (stephen.raymond@dhhs.tas.gov.au) Sat Jun 10 02:41:40 2006 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: MOther Survives, But Baby Dies ..." Previous message: Raymond Stephen: "Re: actinomyces & pregnancy" Maybe in reply to: Dean Huffman .: "MOther Survives, But Baby Dies ..." Next in thread: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: MOther Survives, But Baby Dies ..." Reply: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: MOther Survives, But Baby Dies ..." Reply: Henry Gregor: "Re: MOther Survives, But Baby Dies ..." In paragraph 5 it says the calf had died. Steve -----Original Message----- From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Efrain Ramirez Sent: Saturday, 10 June 2006 10:21 AM To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L Subject: Re: MOther Survives, But Baby Dies ... I am confused - nowhere in the article the word stillborn is mentioned - ?? Ef > At Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Dean Huffman . wrote: > >.. > >Operation Saves Mother, but Baby Elephant Is Stillborn > >She had been in labor since Sunday, but the contractions remained weak. >So on Wednesday night, experts from Missouri and Florida flew to >Syracuse to assist in a rare emergency surgery on the 29-year-old >patient - an Asian elephant named Romani. > >Romani the elephant with members of the medical team that performed the >operation that saved her life, from left, Noha Abou-madi, Beth Bunting, >Susie Bartlett, Rolfe Radcliffe and Dr. George Kollias. >Employees at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo had worked into the night to >transform an elephant barn into an operating room for the surgical >procedure, known as a vestibulotomy, to widen the birth canal. > >An eight-member team gathered on Thursday morning to perform the >procedure, similar in concept to an episiotomy in human births but much >rarer - with only an estimated seven previously performed in the world, a zoo spokeswoman said. > >Reporters camped outside during the four-hour operation. Volunteers >brought changes of clothing and food for the team. Dozens of people >sent e-mail messages to the zoo or called with concern. "She's a huge asset to the zoo," >Sarah Fedele, a zoo spokeswoman, said of Romani. > >But the veterinarians discovered that the legs of the 330-pound calf >were splayed inside the birth canal, causing it to become stuck. The >calf, a female, had died. > >The team had to push the calf back into the uterus to reposition it, >and then pull it back through the canal, said the lead veterinarian, >Dr. Dennis Schmitt, a professor of veterinary medicine from Missouri >State University. Other members of the surgical team came from Cornell >University in Ithaca, and Disney's Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Fla. > >After the surgery, they were cautiously hopeful about Romani. "She's >doing very well," Dr. Schmitt said. > >Romani, who weights 8,200 pounds, has given birth to other calves while >in captivity at the zoo - a male, Tundi, in 1991, and two females, >Kirina, in 1995, and Preya in 2002. In the previous births, Romani >required some minor assistance. "She doesn't like the pain," Ms. Fedele >said. "Not that I can blame her." > >In those deliveries, veterinarians kept labor moving with massages and >injections of Oxytocin to help stimulate contractions. Those techniques >did not work this time, but veterinarians were unable to determine why. >"In elephants, there are a lot of unknowns in the birthing process," Dr. Schmitt said. > >After the surgery on Thursday, the team walked Romani around. Her vital >signs looked good, so they took her to see her daughter Kirina, said >the zoo director, Chuck Doyle, who has worked with Romani for 21 years. > >"They bonded a little," he said. "They were definitely glad to see each other." > >NY Times > >http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/nyregion/09elephant.html -- " The greatest obstacle to knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." Daniel J. Boorstin - Historian Next message: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: MOther Survives, But Baby Dies ..." Previous message: Raymond Stephen: "Re: actinomyces & pregnancy" Maybe in reply to: Dean Huffman .: "MOther Survives, But Baby Dies ..." Next in thread: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: MOther Survives, But Baby Dies ..." Reply: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: MOther Survives, But Baby Dies ..." Reply: Henry Gregor: "Re: MOther Survives, But Baby Dies ..."

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