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Ynt: intravaginal compresses forgotten From: Bulent Potur (bpotur@superonline.com) Mon Aug 23 06:02:03 1999 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Bulent Potur: "Ynt: Earthquake in Turkey" Previous message: Bulent Potur: "Ynt: Politics of terrorism (ignore if you wish) (was: Ynt: Earthquake in Turkey)" Me too I took out such sponges several times. General complaint is odor and discharge. One case was a well established case of generalized superficial vaginitis with green- yellow and whitish plaques. A case of mixed infection, which responded nicely to local povidone suppositories and systemic oral antibiotics. The history was more than 10 days. In your case of less than 3 days I do not expect such infection. But I am not familiar with the flora of your patients. Though after the blood bank affair the anti-physician epidemic seems to have spread from the US to France. 8-( Bulent Potur M.D. Gynecologist http://abone.superonline.com/~bpotur PS: I have a private question for French colleagues about who finances the MSF organization. What is the share of Dassault corp? Thank you. -----Özgün İleti----- Kimden: Paul Prior MD <pprior@earthlink.net> Kime: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L <ob-gyn-l@talk.obgyn.net> Tarih: 22 Ağustos 1999 Pazar 21:58 Konu: Re: intravaginal compresses forgotten >On Sun, 22 Aug 1999 09:14:18 -0500, bouschbacher@i2m.fr (Bouschbacher >JM, France) wrote: > >>I have forgotten 2 compresses after a childbirth (forceps for fetal >>detress and episiotomy). They were released about 60h after. The >>patient had a fever Day 4 and Day 5 treated by antibiotics. She could >>go home Day 10 without any problem. Now I am in justice for thatbecause >>the patient declares she had been more than 5 months in Work Inability >>for that. >>Could some of you send me your own experience of forgotten intravaginal >>material (surgical material or female ones) and the follow up. > >I have had occasion to find forgotten sponges after vaginal delivery >at the 6 week follow up check - most times women complained of a >continued discharge and of course a quite disgusting sponge was then >removed. I've never seen anyone with a problem related to one left in >(I've found probably 5 or 6 [none left by me, btw]). > >I'm aware of no published data that would improve on empirical >observation in this regard. If she went home on day 10 with no >problems I can't see how she would have any problem after this. > >-- >Paul Prior MD pprior@earthlink.net Don't Blame Me... >Ashland, KY USA I Voted For Bob Dole >"No question that an admission of making false statements > to government officials is an impeachable offense" > Bill Clinton, 1974 > Next message: Bulent Potur: "Ynt: Earthquake in Turkey" Previous message: Bulent Potur: "Ynt: Politics of terrorism (ignore if you wish) (was: Ynt: Earthquake in Turkey)"

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