Re: Post C-Section
From: James S Smeltzer MD (gaperina@mindspring.com)
Wed Aug 26 04:05:11 1998
Donna,
I have too. The list of stuff is posted as my reply. The # of things you
can possibly see is many! JSS
At 02:14 AM 8/26/1998 -0500, you wrote:
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> I have had the experience of evaluating post C-section patients for a
>bladder
>flap hematoma within 24hrs-48 hrs post op as a complication. Anyone else??
>
>Donna Kepple
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>Subject: Post C-Section
>Author: 75640.2506@compuserve.com (M Buchanan-DeLamar) at +INET
>Date: 8/4/98 5:02 PM
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>Sonographer's and Ob/Gyn Doctors out there,
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>I has a question but I may not have enough information to get a good
>answer.
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>Last night I was on ultrasound call and at 9pm I was called in to do a exam
>on the uterus on an OB patient who had just had a C-Section. The reason I
>was given was to check the location or postion of the uterus??? Then when
>I got to the hospital and called L &D to get the name of the patient I was
>told "weren't you called back"....the exam was canceled.....the ob/gyn had
>found what she was looking for...the head ob nurse gives me lots more
>information and is more familiar with what we want to know for u/s exams.
>I didn't see the ob/gyn today to find out what was going on. In the past
>the few post c-section exams I have done have been several days or longer
>later looking for abcesses, fluid accumulations, or evaluate uterus for
>possible retained contents. Maybe I've just been lucky until now...all I
>could think of was what kind of difficulties I was going to run into to
>cause artifact, etc.
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>What have any of you had to perform u/s exams for immediately after a
>c-section or what have any of you ob/gyns doctor's out there ordered one
>immediately post c-section for .....or was this just just some whelm to get
>me out . I got called out again later anyway for Radiology backup call due
>to a MVA so it wasn't meant for me to get much sleep last night.
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>Mary Ann
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