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Re: OB: Fun with preeclampsia--very long! From: Steve & Eryl Raymond (eryl@intekom.co.za) Fri Jul 27 13:46:38 2001 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Steve & Eryl Raymond: "Re: Fetal Pulse Oximetry" Previous message: Dean Huffman: "Woman in coma delivers healthy baby" Maybe in reply to: Garry Siegel: "OB: Fun with preeclampsia--very long!" Next in thread: Garry Siegel: "Re: OB: Fun with preeclampsia--very long!" Reply: Garry Siegel: "Re: OB: Fun with preeclampsia--very long!" Reply: Mats O. Bergstrom: "Re: OB: Fun with preeclampsia" Amazing as it may be, I sympathise with Bob here. His point is well made that you have made a diagnosis on the flimsiest of evidence. I try to get it into the heads of my residents that the decision to induce is a decision to deliver and you don't decide to induce until you have decided that the baby is better out than in. I don't think that either condition was met here. The thrombocytopenia, while real, is not in itself anything more than a marker of the first part of HELLP syndrome. You didn't say what the NST showed, and you didn't tell us what her uric acid was. If these were normal I think I would have waited on a second platelet count after 24 hours bed rest. Ripening with misoprostol requires patience and persistence sometimes and this sort of scenario is not uncommon. That's why I think it pays to be certain about your need to deliver. She bloody nearly ended up with a C/S for failed induction for a very poor indication. Oh, and about Foley catheters. I use them for tubal chromotubation in infertility and put them in the nonpregnant cervix, so, no, there is no problem getting them into the pregnant cervix. Just don't try to insert a 20 gauge, stick to 16 or 14. And no, you don't need an epidural fo that. stray Garry Siegel wrote: > >> > >>Well, we've got a problem already. You're diagnosing her with "severe > >>preeclampsia" when you've found that she has no proteinuria. Please explain. > >>What diagnostic criteria do you use? > > > >Bob, severe pre-eclampsia can certainly occur in the absence of > >proteinuria. Been there, done that. Variant of HELLP basically. > >Having said that, I am interested to see that someone diagnosed with > >"severe" preeclampsia was managed over a 3 day period. My goal is to > >get those patients delivered within 24 hours of diagnosis. I > >understand that this was somewhat of a "soft" call, but once the > >diagnosis is on the chart.... > > > >Was a foley bulb considered? I have found that an excellent adjunct > >to cytotec, when there are too many contractions to give a 2nd dose. > > > > Paul, you are my knight in shining armor to reply to Bob. I did not > make the distinction between Pre-eclampsia and Gestational Hypertension > and Pregnancy Induced hypertension, since I never can get them straight, > and, most important in this case, *it didn't matter*. Bob, sorry to be > argumentative and not scientific, but in this case, you gotta be > practicing Ob--I think that all of us would agree that delivery was > warranted. > > With respect to using a foley, I didn't grow up using them, and thus, it > didn't hit my radar scope. I will think about it next time, but I'm not > sure that this woman would have tolerated it. Can you put it in a > closed cervix? Would you ever place an epidural first? > > Paul, I am not aware of there being an arbitrary time limit in severe > pre-eclampsia. A staged ripening/induction like this isn't so common > anymore, but still OK, I think. Obviously, had her pressures been bad, > requiring apressoline (they didn't), her output diminshed, or her labs > getting worse, then I would have been more anxious to section her. As > it was, I was ready to section her just to put us all out of our misery! > > I bet that her SGOT will go up post partum! > > Garry > > -- > Garry E. Siegel, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. > Roswell, GA > Private Practice -- Dr.S.H. Raymond Head of Department of O & G Empangeni Hospital South Africa 3880 Phone: (+27) 35-7721111 Fax: (+27) 35-7922596 Next message: Steve & Eryl Raymond: "Re: Fetal Pulse Oximetry" Previous message: Dean Huffman: "Woman in coma delivers healthy baby" Maybe in reply to: Garry Siegel: "OB: Fun with preeclampsia--very long!" Next in thread: Garry Siegel: "Re: OB: Fun with preeclampsia--very long!" Reply: Garry Siegel: "Re: OB: Fun with preeclampsia--very long!" Reply: Mats O. Bergstrom: "Re: OB: Fun with preeclampsia"

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