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Re: Gyn: OCPsFrom: Betsy Hyde (elishyde@connix.com)Wed Aug 26 18:40:02 1998
At 5:22 PM 8/26/98, John Robertson M.D. wrote: >Read a recent article talking about OCPs and DVT - a hot topic in Quebec >right now because of a law suit there. One of the points made was the >need to discuss discontinuation of OCPs prior to surgery. Was wondering >how the list members handle this issue? If asked, I have always erred on the side of caution and recommended stopping OCs when surgery would result in immobilization of the leg, or prolonged immobilization of the patient. Same w/ broken leg. I've been flabbergasted at the patients who have had total hip and total knee replacement and whose orthopedists have continued them on OCPs. (Have put them on Coumadin, however).
-- Betsy Hyde CNM Branford, CT
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