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Re: 'How childbirth went industrial' From: Efrain Ramirez (eramirezt@coqui.net) Fri Oct 13 22:49:23 2006 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Bernard Cristalli: "Re: 'How childbirth went industrial'" Previous message: Efrain Ramirez: "Prophylactic MgSO4" In reply to: R. Daniel Braun: "Re: 'How childbirth went industrial'" Next in thread: Cesar Molina: "Re: 'How childbirth went industrial'" Reply: Cesar Molina: "Re: 'How childbirth went industrial'" Add 30 more years - I have never done that - I have never used forceps or anythong else except my hands to get the baby out.. Ef t Fri, 13 Oct 2006, R. Daniel Braun wrote: > >In 42 years, I have never seen nor heard of that maneuver. > >Dan > >On 10/13/06, Jane Helwig, MD <jane@helwig.net> wrote: >> >> There is a fascinating article in the current issue (Oct. 9, cover art >> shows airplanes tinting Vermont's leaves autumn colors) of The New >> Yorker magazine by Atul Gawande, MD, on the subject of rising c/s rates >> and why obstetric skills such as forceps are rapidly slipping away. The >> gist is that it's hard to teach forceps skills and it's easy to teach >> c/s skills. Thus some finish residency without knowing how to do >> forceps safely. The remedy: concentrate on teaching residents how to do >> a c/s and presto! safer childbirth. >> >> As with most stories from Dr. Gawande (a general surgeon), it is an >> entertaining and well researched piece. He quotes extensively from >> Watson "Watty" Bowes, MD, professor emeritus of obstetrics at UNC, who >> was my adviser in medical school. >> >> One exception I noticed was Gawande's description of how a c/s is done, >> about delivering the baby from the uterus: "If the head is deep in the >> birth canal, you have to grasp the baby's waist, stand up straight, and >> *pull*." >> >> I haven't ever grasped a baby's waist at c/s. Is this a standard >> maneuver? >> >> -- >> Jane Helwig, MD, FACOG >> Private practice, 2 MDs >> Lancaster, SC >> >-- >R. Daniel Braun > > "The way to health is an aromatic bath and scented massage everyday". > Hippocrates > -- “ The greatest obstacle to knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” Daniel J. Boorstin - Historian Next message: Bernard Cristalli: "Re: 'How childbirth went industrial'" Previous message: Efrain Ramirez: "Prophylactic MgSO4" In reply to: R. Daniel Braun: "Re: 'How childbirth went industrial'" Next in thread: Cesar Molina: "Re: 'How childbirth went industrial'" Reply: Cesar Molina: "Re: 'How childbirth went industrial'"

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