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Re: Alana's Surprise stillbirth From: 530rose (530rose@email.msn.com) Sat Oct 28 01:35:37 2000 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Dr James Lie: "Re: Fri - on Sat - Bill Gates" Previous message: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: Alana's Surprise stillbirth" Re: bulb suctioning - I rarely do it anymore. If I need suction, I think wall suction is best and even then I suction infrequently. However, I have noticed that the nurses want to do gastric suction on the babies that I don't suction in the belief that the baby must have swallowed all that mucous.... Sometimes you can't win... Fran Wilson ARNP CNM Wild Rose Women's Clinic Kennewick, WA >----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathi Wilson" <wilsonk@gtn.on.ca> To: "Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L" <ob-gyn-l@mail.medispecialty.com> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 7:19 PM Subject: Re: Alana's Surprise stillbirth > > Joanne Bulley wrote: > > > A case in Michigan (early '80s) - baby born live at home with lay > > midwife. The lay MW had convinced a freind who was an RN but who did no > > OB to come "observe" just to "see that it is safe" - the airway was > > never suctioned - the baby got bluer and bluer and died. No case was > > brought against the lay midwife - but the RN lost her license. > > This certainly was a tragedy, and that baby needed to be helped. However, I'm > unclear about the intent of your statement, and perhaps this is another > practice question, but it seems as if you're saying that the baby died because > it wasn't suctioned at birth. I would have to say that that should have been > a first of several steps in a baby that was having difficulty, but that > certainly it is not routine practice at our hospital for babies to be > suctioned at birth. It is a practice that has potential for harm and is only > used when there is an indication for it to be done. However, I do have the > impression that it's a practice that a lot of people (midwives, too) have a > great deal of difficulty abandoning. I'm interested in knowing how many > people still regard it as a routine part of immediate newborn care. > -- > Kathi Wilson, RM > Ilderton, Ontario, Canada > mailto:wilsonk@gtn.on.ca > ********************** > Thames Valley Midwives > 346 Platts Lane, > London, Ontario, Canada > > http://tvm.on.ca > mailto:info@tvm.on.ca > Next message: Dr James Lie: "Re: Fri - on Sat - Bill Gates" Previous message: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: Alana's Surprise stillbirth"

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