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Feticide - Reply from UKFrom: Malcolm Griffiths (malcolm@mgriff22.demon.co.uk)Fri Jan 31 16:00:43 1997
In message <32F14743@msm-gate.fhhosp.ab.ca>, "Pollard, Jeffrey" <Jeffrey.Pollard@CRHA-Health.Ab.Ca> writes > > I am curious what list members recommend or use for feticide prior to >late second or third trimester (indicated) terminations. Digoxin? KCl? >Calcium? When, where, and how much? Success rates? The literature is >unfortunately scarce on this issue. In many ways it seems more >compassionate to do this (compared with nothing) during either medical or >surgical terminations. > I personally have reservations about terminations after 24 weeks. UK practicve though is to recommend KCl after ~22 weeks. My personal experience is that induced abortion with potent synthetic prostaglandins results in such hypertonic uterine contractions as to lead to fetal death before expulsion. The issue in the UK is about avoiding fetal pain and suffering. Malcolm Griffiths MD,MRCOG,MFFP,Cert.Mgmnt Obstetrician & Gynaecologist Luton & Dunstable Hosp., LU6 2DT, UK. Tel: 01582-497459 (office) Fax: 01582-497424 01525-222849 (home) email: Malcolm@mgriff22.demon.co.uk http://www.obgyn.net/board/griffith.htm "It is dangerous to be right on a subject on which the established authorities are wrong." (Voltaire) "But sometimes it's fun :-)" (Griffiths)
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