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Re: abgs on cord?From: Janis S. Legacy,CNM (jlegacy@mail.sisna.com)Tue Dec 10 19:18:43 1996
Ealgail@aol.com wrote: > > For medico-legal reasons as well as to assure the parents after a difficult vaginal delivery it is good to document a normal pH and a normal pO2 and pCO2. You should get BOTH arterial and venous, but if > you get only one, it should be arterial.
> It would be very difficult for a jury in the face of this statement, to rule that a baby was asphyxiated at birth, if you have a normal cord blood gas, The other side of this is to make sure the nursing staff or whoever draws the cord blood up, as well as the laboratory staff that run the test know what they are doing. An abnormal result due to human error can cause unnecessary problems for the caregivers and become red flags in an otherwise normal baby.
-- Janis S. Legacy, CNM Edmonds, WA
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