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Re: Cord pH - Malpractice questionaire From: Henry Gregor (henrygregor@yahoo.com) Wed Jun 27 22:44:00 2007 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Bernard Cristalli: "Re: malpractice questionnaire" Previous message: Henry Gregor: "Re: Malpractice questionairre" In reply to: R. Daniel Braun: "Re: Cord pH - Malpractice questionaire" Next in thread: art fougner, md: "Re: Cord pH - Malpractice questionaire" Reply: art fougner, md: "Re: Cord pH - Malpractice questionaire" No, he/she should not pay for it. It is part of the overhead of performing the services. H "R. Daniel Braun" <rd.braun@gmail.com> wrote: Then since it is for the benefit of the OB-GYN or his/her insurance company, they should pay for it. How much is a set of gasses in your hospital. I would guess they will be somewhere between $50 and $200 in most hospitals. I got a $53 bill for a fasting blood sugar this week. Let me see 3 million births in USA last year X's $100 = $300,000,000 per year wasted. Send me a mere 1% and I will be happy. Dan On 6/27/07, Bernard Cristalli <bcrist@club-internet.fr> wrote: Totally agreed Dan, no use in treatment. But... It's an "a posteriori" defencive action. If the pH is not < 7.00, and/or base deficit ¡Ý 12 mmol/L, nothing severe occured to the baby during the labor and a cerebral palsy couldn't be attributed to you. See the 4 essential criteria all 4 necessary to consider hypoxia the etiology of cerebral palsy. ACOG Task Force on Neonatal Encephalopathyand Cerebral Palsy (2003) R. Daniel Braun a ¨¦crit : > What do you do diferent in the treatment of either the Mother or the > baby based on the blood gas results? If nothing, the test is worthless > and unwarranted. > Dan > > On 6/27/07, *Henry Gregor* <henrygregor@yahoo.com > <mailto:henrygregor@yahoo.com >> wrote: > > I agree with Ef...for all the stress and responsibility ob's bear > for each delivery until that child reaches legal majority, it's > money well spent. I've seen several cases of obs and peds getting > stung with a suit seven to twelve years down the line, and in each > instance that I interacted with any of the involved docs, there > were regrets expressed about not having done some things that > would have been to their advantage later down the line. It's > sorta' like an automotive seatbelt...cars would cost less if that > protective device weren't added to each one made, but when you > need one and benefit from it, its pretty cheap equipment and money > well spent. Placental path falls into the same category, IMO. > -- R. Daniel Braun, MD FACOG(L) CMT Professor Emeritus Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology Indiana U. School of Medicine R. Daniel Braun "Science without Religion is LAME; Religion without Science is BLIND" Einstein 1941 --------------------------------- You snooze, you lose. Get messages ASAP with AutoCheck --------------------------------- in the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. --------------------------------- Next message: Bernard Cristalli: "Re: malpractice questionnaire" Previous message: Henry Gregor: "Re: Malpractice questionairre" In reply to: R. Daniel Braun: "Re: Cord pH - Malpractice questionaire" Next in thread: art fougner, md: "Re: Cord pH - Malpractice questionaire" Reply: art fougner, md: "Re: Cord pH - Malpractice questionaire"

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