Re: Exam lights and GC question
From: Charlie Chambers (cchamber@gorge.net)
Fri Mar 4 18:09:39 2005
I've often been tempted to use my Petzl headlamp that I take fishing.
Unfortunately, I think it would be met with wild eyed stares. But it
would be the most practical.
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Charlie Chambers
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Hood River, OR USA
cchamber@alumni.rice.edu
"...not because I regard fishing as being so terribly
important but because I suspect that so many of the other
concerns of men are equally unimportant-and not nearly
so much fun."
John Voelker
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On Mar 4, 2005, at 3:57 AM, Efrain Ramirez wrote:
> I haven't used speculum lights but I do not see any good reason to
> change -external ones give me a good light source to any part of the
> body if I want to, specially the vulva! -
>
> On the GC/Chlamydia - I agree with Ron - in my popukation I do it on
> high risk patients and on every pregnant patient..
>
>> At Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Vscnmmsn@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> I use the speculum lights too. It seems the consensus here is that
>> OB/GYNs
>> are using the external sources and the CNMs/APRNs use the internal
>> light source.
>> The OB I work with also uses the external source and I use the
>> speculum
>> light. They bought them for me after I started here. They cannot be
>> very expensive
>> because we have a bean counter for a CEO. I can find out tomorrow if
>> anyone is
>> interested.
>> It must be a difference in training and what you are used to using.
>>
>> Another question:
>> Does anyone do GC/Chlymida cultures on every pap or just symptomatic
>> and
>> pregnant patients? I wanted to do them on all the annuals (the way I
>> was trained)
>> but my OB only does them on pregnant or symptomatic patients. GC/Chl
>> are
>> usually asymptomatic- so are we going to miss a lot of them?
>> Citations? I have
>> found 2 or 3 so far in patients without complaints.
>> I would appreciate the education in different practice protocols.
>> Thanks
>> Vicki SMith, CNM
>
> --
> I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,
> And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sounds
> contribute toward me.
>
> ~walt whitman~
>
