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macrosomia From: Robert J. Woolley (wooll005@tc.umn.edu) Wed Dec 30 20:26:31 1998 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Rafael Haciski, MD: "FRI - Imponderables" Previous message: jane@seasonedsystems.com: "Re: OB: Twin delivery/availablity of anesthesiologist--long" I am pleased to draw readers' attention to the following: Sandmire HF, Woolley RJ. Macrosomia: Can we prevent big problems with big babies? Birth 1998 (#4, December); 25:263-7. Basically, we spend about 3700 words challenging a single sentence that appeared in a letter to the editor in the green journal last year. (Yes, I believe in overkill. I swat flies with baseball bats.) Those authors (Gittens, Ganesh, and Iffy) claimed that for macrosomic babies, not only would routine c-section prevent brachial plexus injuries but it would also decrease perinatal morbidity and mortality. Herb and I assembled all the evidence we could find that refutes that assertion. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Woolley -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Paul, Minnesota "Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape." -- Solon (ca. 600 BCE) Next message: Rafael Haciski, MD: "FRI - Imponderables" Previous message: jane@seasonedsystems.com: "Re: OB: Twin delivery/availablity of anesthesiologist--long"

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