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Re: accuracy of V/E findings From: Kathi Wilson (wilsonk@gtn.on.ca) Sun May 27 19:31:09 2001 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Gerald P. Rodriguez: "Re: accuracy of V/E findings" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: Frozen Embryos" Maybe in reply to: zuhdi khalid: "accuracy of V/E findings" Next in thread: Gerald P. Rodriguez: "Re: accuracy of V/E findings" zuhdi khalid wrote: > Last week during our morning rounds ,there was a differance in V/E > findings between senior and jonior staff , that affected the managment . > I heard there was a pelvic model where residents can practice V/E then > tested for accuracy, can any one tell me where we can find it? When I was training as a midwife, I did what was recommended in Varney's (then) "Nurse Midwifery". I carried around a 6 inch ruler that also had centimeters on it. I put my fingers into every round object that I encountered (coffee cups, orange juice cans, bottles, and so on and so on), estimated my findings and then measured w/ the ruler. Estimating dilation is a psychomotor skill that one only gets good at w/ continuous repetition. I *am* good at it, because I've done this. (For example, the opening of the wine glass that I'm enjoying my off-call glass of wine in is 7 cm in diameter, confirmed by the ruler on the desk :-) Station is more difficult, and something that I find that people generally don't have good agreement on. Position -- well... you do your best, knowing that the best will occasionally be wrong. One of my midwife partners says "If it doesn't feel right, then it's probably OP" :-) OA always "feels right". -- 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: Gerald P. Rodriguez: "Re: accuracy of V/E findings" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: Frozen Embryos" Maybe in reply to: zuhdi khalid: "accuracy of V/E findings" Next in thread: Gerald P. Rodriguez: "Re: accuracy of V/E findings"

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