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Re: beta strep screening From: Richard Chudacoff, MD (richardc@bcm.tmc.edu) Fri Nov 8 10:58:48 1996 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: R L Meisel: "Re: beta strep screening" Previous message: Richard Chudacoff, MD: "Group B strep/PCN All" Maybe in reply to: Cindy Anderson: "beta strep screening" Next in thread: mborn: "Re: beta strep screening" Do you get the feeling that by getting a negative culture you are out of danger? Seems to me that this prophylactic testing is just false and dangerous reassurance. >Just over this past summer I know of 2 separate cases of term babies with neg >35-37 week cultures without risk factors in labor who developed full blown >Group B strep sepsis at our hospital after delivery. One is on echmo the >other died. This tells me two things. >1. This protocol is far from perfect >2. Anyone not following the test and treat protocol is hanging by an >extremely thin thread if they have a GBS baby. Even though it may not have >been preventable even with the protocol as in 1. above, you can bet you'll >be held to that standard. >Mitch > -- Richard Chudacoff, MD Assistant Professor, OB/GYN Baylor College of Medicine BaylorMedCare 1601 Main St., STE 505 Richmond, TX tel 281-344-0277 fax 281-344-0288 Next message: R L Meisel: "Re: beta strep screening" Previous message: Richard Chudacoff, MD: "Group B strep/PCN All" Maybe in reply to: Cindy Anderson: "beta strep screening" Next in thread: mborn: "Re: beta strep screening"

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