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Re: Severe PIH 34 weeks From: R. Daniel Braun (rd.braun@gmail.com) Wed May 23 14:52:16 2007 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: R. Daniel Braun: "Re: Severe PIH 34 weeks" Previous message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: Severe PIH 34 weeks" In reply to: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: Severe PIH 34 weeks" Next in thread: R. Daniel Braun: "Re: Severe PIH 34 weeks" Reply: R. Daniel Braun: "Re: Severe PIH 34 weeks" Reply: Andrew Folley: "Re: Severe PIH 34 weeks" You got enough Gray hair on this list telling you to deliver that you don't need to worry about all that other stuff. Myself, Joe C, Joe P, Art, Bob, et al. BTW BP 110 diastolic is a medical emergency in any patient, pregnant or not, PIH or not, Toxemia or not, Essential Hypertension or not. It needs to be lowered right away to prevent blowing out a vessel in the Squash. PIH is just a variant of toxemia and should be treated the same. IMHO. Dan On 5/23/07, DoctorJoe@aol.com <DoctorJoe@aol.com> wrote: > > In a message dated 5/23/2007 1:08:17 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > AllanHo@aol.com writes: > > The flip side of this argument is that if you deliver the baby, say by > c/s, and the mother died from a PE. Now the burden of proof would be on why > the baby had to be delivered so urgently... Because you "think" something > bad is going to happen? > > No, you document what you did and why you did what you did. > > In this case, a "well grown" baby implies, at least to me, the > hypertension is due to preeclampsia. The treatment is delivery. We don't > "think" the treatment is delivery -- it is obstetric dogma that the > treatment is delivery. > > If, for the sake of argument, we posit that the HBP is due to chronic > hypertension, then that carries a WORSE prognosis as far as abruption and > sudden fetal death, since there is chronic small vessel disease, yada, yada, > yada. (It doesn't look like that here, since there is no IUGR, oligo, etc., > but for the sake of argument ... .) So we don't "think" she needs to be > delivered, we know that the stats on severe hypertensives in pregnancy are > bad and there is a higher chance of something bad happening from the HBP > than, say, a PE postoperatively. > > All of that goes on the chart, is discussed with the patient, and you do a > C/S. If you do it NOW, you'll likely have less maternal morbidity than if > you let her "declare" herself. > > Joe P. > > ------------------------------ > See what's free at AOL.com <http://www.aol.com/?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000503>. > ------------------------------ > > ------------------------------ > -- R. Daniel Braun, MD FACOG(L) CMT Professor Emeritus Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology Indiana U. School of Medicine R. Daniel Braun "The way to health is an aromatic bath and scented massage everyday". Hippocrates Next message: R. Daniel Braun: "Re: Severe PIH 34 weeks" Previous message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: Severe PIH 34 weeks" In reply to: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: Severe PIH 34 weeks" Next in thread: R. Daniel Braun: "Re: Severe PIH 34 weeks" Reply: R. Daniel Braun: "Re: Severe PIH 34 weeks" Reply: Andrew Folley: "Re: Severe PIH 34 weeks"

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