Re: GBS scenario

From: DoctorJoe@aol.com
Fri Feb 11 06:41:22 2005


In a message dated 2/11/05 1:22:19 AM, jmtd1@yahoo.es writes:

>  The culture got negative whithout treatment? Was it really positive at
> first time?
>

GBS positivity notoriously waxes and wanes. That's why the recommendations tried to get as close to delivery as possible, without being unavailable or missing a lot of "early" deliveries. The easiest concept would be to culture everyone at 28 weeks, along with other "routine" labs. But since you can't be sure that GBS won't come out in the last 12 weeks, the powers that be pushed it back to 36 weeks or so, to get as close to labor and delivery as possible and still have the results "on the chart" in time.

Joe P.





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