Re: Today was a GOOD day!
From: Joe Cutchin (forcep@intercom.net)
Fri Feb 29 08:16:30 2008
Art: As much I like the outcome , I have to agree with you. Joe C
art fougner, md wrote:
> Glad things worked out for Mom and Babe. However, were you to present
> this management to Board Examiners, you'd be invited to return the next
> year.
>
> Cheers to all.
>
> Art
>
> At Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Anna Meenan, MD wrote:
>
>>The daughter of the medical assistant at the outreach clinic I used to
>>staff was 41 weeks pregnant. Was brought in Saturday for induction and
>>I was bummed because I don't work weekends and thought I would miss the
>>delivery. Turned out baby was in transverse lie when she arrived and
>>decision was made to section her. She waited and waited and waited, but
>>one emergency after another came up and her elective section just kept
>>getting pushed back. Finally they sent her home and told her to check
>>in the office Monday for another section date. When she got to the
>>office, she was vertex, so they scheduled her for induction last night
>>(but with great trepidation because EFW on U/S was >4000g). She got
>>Cervidil but after 8 hours she had some deep decels so they had to pull
>>the cervidil early with minimal cervical change. Heart tones stabilized
>>so the consultant said let her sit for a couple hours and he would
>>decide what to do next. Everybody got busy again, and when we checked
>>her after 3 hours, she had gone from 1 to 9! Hooray! Broke her bag and
>>got her started pushing. Deep variables with pushing, but she was
>>bringing it down almost to vacuum/forceps territory, so I went out to
>>the desk to inform the consultant that we were going to put the vacuum
>>on this possibly macrosomic baby. When i walked back into the room, she
>>was crowning! Hooray! Two more pushes and the baby was out, without so
>>much as a tear. 1 cm to baby in 4 hours, I got to be there after all,
>>gave my friend the new grandma a big hug, and got out of there at noon.
>>Hooray!
>>Just had to share. Wish all days could be like today.
>
> --
> art fougner, md
> "May The Wings of Liberty Never Lose a Feather." - Jack Burton
>
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