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Re: Retire forceps and vacuums? From: Bernard Cristalli (bcrist@club-internet.fr) Sat Oct 14 09:16:03 2006 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Dean Huffman .: "Re: Diluted vs undiluted oxytocin" Previous message: Betsy Hyde: "Re: 'How childbirth went industrial'" In reply to: Andrew Folley: "Re: Retire forceps and vacuums?" Next in thread: Cesar Molina: "Re: Retire forceps and vacuums?" Reply: Cesar Molina: "Re: Retire forceps and vacuums?" Andrew, Would you section a woman with a baby at the low part of the pelvis, rather than perform a low forceps? Let's teach obstetricians or the next step will be to ban vaginal deliveries. BC Andrew Folley a écrit : > As a follow up to the industrialization of obstetrics, does anyone > wish to defend the postion that moms and babies would be better off if > vacuums, forceps and breech deliveries were "outlawed" in the obsteric > suites? I have spent the last 25 years trying to hone my skills in > these areas but I wonder if we should simply say that there is no > longer any place for forceps and vacuums in obstetrics. C-sections > certainly have their risks but I think we would all agree that for the > most part they have become a very, very safe procedure. Maybe it is > time to put the vacuum and forceps on the museum shelf??? andrew > >> From: garrys@mindspring.com (Garry E. Siegel, M.D.) >> Reply-To: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net >> To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net> >> Subject: Re: 'How childbirth went industrial' >> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:08:27 -0500 >> >> Today, my partner and I were lamenting the demise of forceps skills >> today, as our junior partner did a section on someone fully dilated >> after pushing for a long while (CNM patient who pushed longer than 3 >> hours, primigravida with an epidural) that sounds like she might have >> been "deliverable" by an obstetrician more comfortable with operative >> vaginal delivery. >> >> Garry >> >> -- >> Garry E. Siegel, M.D. >> Private Practice >> Roswell, GA > -- ÐÏࡱá Next message: Dean Huffman .: "Re: Diluted vs undiluted oxytocin" Previous message: Betsy Hyde: "Re: 'How childbirth went industrial'" In reply to: Andrew Folley: "Re: Retire forceps and vacuums?" Next in thread: Cesar Molina: "Re: Retire forceps and vacuums?" Reply: Cesar Molina: "Re: Retire forceps and vacuums?"

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