Re: routine intrapartum labs

From: Efrain Ramirez (eramirez@icepr.com)
Fri May 26 23:58:21 2000


I have done cords gases on every delivery for more than 10 years -I do not consider them routine (I do not like the word routine:-)-- I believe they will become a standard of care - at first -- as controversial as HIV screening and now as for type-Specific HSV Serological Tests test.

At Fri, 26 May 2000, maggiecnm wrote: >
>What is this group's opinion of routine cord gases for all infants
>regardless of Apgars? I am in a new hospital where this is standard
>practice and have been chastised by several MDs for not getting them,
>even when the babies are pink and screaming with excellent apgars. In
>my previous hospitals, we only got them if the apgars were poor or after
>a difficult delivery.
>Also, is there any reason to get a CBC and diff on every intrapartum
>patient? When I asked about this, no one could remember when they had
>actually changed their management based on the CBC, and most of them are
>just filed in the chart and not looked at.

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