Re: No Posts!
From: R. Daniel Braun (rd.braun@gmail.com)
Wed Nov 28 16:50:49 2007
How would your screening have helped? That baby needed treatment 48 hours
before it was born for it to have done much to help.
Dan
On Nov 28, 2007 5:13 PM, Douglas Krell <dkrell@msn.com> wrote:
> Dan,
> I had a case of twins where twin A was born vaginally unresuscitatable
> with fulminate GBBS pnuemonia, twin B separate sac breech extraction, was
> perfectly fine. The mother had been GBBS +. The organism went right through
> the membranes and killed baby A and a few hours of PCN didn't help.
> Since then I have screened everyone...
> I'm just catching a little crap for it.
> I'll probaBLY CONTINUE to screen if other people do as well.
>
> Doug
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:23:57 -0600
> ------------------------------
> From: rd.braun@gmail.com
> ------------------------------
> To: ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net
> Subject: Re: RE: No Posts!
>
> I am aware of one suit brought on this ground. The baby died of GBBS
> sepsis within 20 hours of delivery. Patient had been in Hospital for less
> than 2 hours prior to section. Defence was victorius, case never went to
> court.
> Dan
>
> On Nov 28, 2007 4:08 PM, Meenan, Anna <annam@uic.edu> wrote:
>
> We do it, mainly because it would be good to know if the pt. comes in
> and has a precipitous, unplanned VBAC (in order to decide how to
> deal with the baby in the nursery). Likewise if she ruptures at home
> and doesn't realize it (have had this happen to me at least twice in
> my career) and comes in more than 18 hours later.
>
> Otherwise, probably not necessary.
>
> Anna Meenan, MD
>
> >I guess we have been doing it routinely regardless...
> >and now that you mention it..it seems unecessary and foolish...yet
> >another unecessary test.
> >frances wren
> >
>> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Douglas Krell < dkrell@msn.com>
> >Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:12 pm
> >Subject: RE: No Posts!
> >To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net >
> >
> >> Here's a quick question for the group.
> >> Is anyone doing GBS testing on their patients
> >> planning elective C-section?
> >>
> >> Douglas Krell MD
> >>
> >> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:53:45 -0600From: DoctorJoe@aol.comTo:
> >> ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.netSubject : Re: No Posts!
> >>
> >> In a message dated 11/28/2007 1:50:58 P.M. Central Standard
> >> Time, dean@thehuffpeople.net writes:
> >> As best I can tell, there have been no posts to OB-GYN-L today.
> >> Is that true, oris their server broken?
> >>
> >> I don't remember seeing any lately.
> >>
> >> But this one came thru.
> >>
> >> Joe P.
> >>
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>
> --
> 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
>
--
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
