Re: Prophylactic MgSO4
From: Richard Kaplan (rkaplan@triad.rr.com)
Sun Oct 15 17:52:13 2006
True or False? .
1) Hyperreflexia is not a sign of preeclampsia
or eclampsia.
2) The practice of checking reflexes on
obstetric patients is only to insure that magnesium levels are not
dangerously high.
--
Richard Kaplan, MD
Greensboro
>----- Original Message -----
From: "ainsron" <ainsron@sbcglobal.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L" <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: Prophylactic MgSO4
>I give Mag sulfate if BPs are over 140/90 or hyper-reflexes and borderline
> elevated BP.
>
> Ronald E. Ainsworth, MD, FACOG
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Efrain
> Ramirez
> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 6:23 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
> Subject: Re: Prophylactic MgSO4
>
> Then .. do you use prophylactic MgSO4 in mild gestatonal hypertation?
>
> Ef
>
>>
> At Sat, 14 Oct 2006, Ronald Ainsworth wrote:
>>
>>you're right, I saw it at the same time, must have had a brain freeze
>>
>>Efrain Ramirez <eramirezt@coqui.net> wrote: Ron.. your answer seems
> directed to the pitocin question.
>>
>>Ef
>>
>>At Sat, 14 Oct 2006, ainsron wrote:
>>>
>>>I never have, always placed in primary IV 20 units/L, sometimes up to 40
>>>units.
>>>
>>>Ronald E. Ainsworth, MD, FACOG
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Efrain
>>>Ramirez
>>>Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 8:14 PM
>>>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
>>>Subject: Prophylactic MgSO4
>>>
>>>Who in the list gives universal prophylactic MgSO4 to mild PIH - I
>>>always did and still do- anyone else?
>>>
>>>Ef
>>>
>>>--
>>>" The greatest obstacle to knowledge is not ignorance,
>>>it is the illusion of knowledge." Daniel J. Boorstin - Historian
>>>
>>--
>>" The greatest obstacle to knowledge is not ignorance,
>>it is the illusion of knowledge." Daniel J. Boorstin - Historian
>>
>
> --
> " The greatest obstacle to knowledge is not ignorance,
> it is the illusion of knowledge." Daniel J. Boorstin - Historian
>
