Re: Medicare Says It Won't Cover Hospital Errors
From: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C. (johnprov@sympatico.ca)
Sun Aug 26 16:09:55 2007
>From those guidelines.
Maternal death or serious disability associated with labor or delivery
on a low-risk pregnancy while being cared for in a healthcare facility
Anyone who has done any OB would know that half of maternal deaths had
no risk factors prior to going into labour. Pulmonary embolus, amniotic
fluid embolus, peripartem cardiomyopathy, Acute fatty liver of pregnancy
are just a few causes of death which are unpredicatable; and half of the
cases of Pre-eclampsia and post-partem hemmorraghe would be
unpredictable. If you could identify the patients that are going to
stay low risk OB would be easy.
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Take care, John
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