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Re: 26 weeks 3 days, 7 contractions/hour, for dr

From: William F. von Almen, II, MD, FACOG (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 24 Mar 2002 14:11:50 -0600 (CST)

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In reply to: Scholarbo: "26 weeks 3 days, 7 contractions/hour, for dr"

At Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Scholarbo wrote: >
>When do you tell your patients to call or go to L&D? I'm on HUAM,
>2x/day. Mostly ctx are only 0-5/hour, but last night I had 7. Matria
>called and per perinatologist's written orders, told me to drink water,
>pee, take brethine, and re-monitor for an hour, and the contractions
>went down -- I can't remember if it was 4 or 2/hour after that and 0
>this morning. I only take Brethine in crisis, and this has been my only
>crisis.
>
>I called the on-call ob today and he says 8/hour is worrisome, but no
>intervention until 18/hour. Since I've already delivered once at 28
>weeks with disastrous outcome, I'm not comfortable with his comfort
>zone. He's not my perinatologist, but he's the one on call today.
Scholarbo

Each doc sets his own threshold. I doubt he meant 18.

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