Re: OB: Planned Home Birth After Previous Cesarean
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Mon May 5 13:41:46 2008
And folks still smoke too ... doesn't make it any more less risky
behavior.
Art
At Mon, 5 May 2008, Glen Elrod wrote:
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>Folks are choosing this. It may not impact those docs in big hospitals with rare EMTALA call to handle the drop ins, but here where I take essentially 1:4 EMTALA call it is a BIG issue with how to a)educate patients and b)work to have a less adversarial relationship with the midwives.
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>Glen
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>>>----- Original Message ----
>From: "art fougner, md" <evsono@pipeline.com>
>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L <ob-gyn-l@mail.obgyn.net>
>Sent: Sunday, May 4, 2008 5:43:45 AM
>Subject: Re: OB: Planned Home Birth After Previous Cesarean
>
>Barbieri's not running out of material if we're kicking this around.
>Folks out there are opting for this, whether their reality checks are
>overdrawn or not.
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>Art
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>At Sun, 4 May 2008, Charles Bloom wrote:
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>>The question in the title of the OBG Management editorial.
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>>Should women attempt home birth after C-section?
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>>.if posed to obstetricians, is absurd. The standard of practice in most, if
>>not all, hospitals that are still doing VBACs is that the obstetricians have
>>to be in-house during active labor for an emergency Cesarean if necessary.
>>Therefore, the second question of the editorial.
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>>Is this a valid birth plan?
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>>.if posed to obstetricians, is also absurd and the answer is obviously no.
>>Any obstetrician that willingly participates in this birth plan is an idiot.
>>There is no need to read further and certainly no need to debate this.
>>Barbieri must be running out of material.
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>>Unfortunately, there are many people out there doing many dangerous things
>>and when there is a problem with their risky behavior and they show up at
>>the hospital on our watch, we have the ethical, moral and EMTALA
>>responsibility to do what we can for them.
>>
>>Charles
>>
>>> Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 12:24:06 -0500
>>> From: evsono@pipeline.com
>>> To: ob-gyn-l@mail.obgyn.net
>>> Subject: OB: Planned Home Birth After Previous Cesarean
>>>
>>> Valid birth plan or outrageous choice?
>>> http://www.obgmanagement.com/article_pages.asp?AID=6140&UID>
>>> Have at it!
>>>
>>> Art
>>>
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>>> art fougner, md
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