I was wondering if anyone has seen placenta accreta? My very last patient in nursing school was a scheduled section for previa and possible accreta. Turns out she did have an accreta, so they had to put her under general and she ended up with a hysterectomy. Her OB first tried to pull out the placenta which resulted in a hole the size of a baseball. It was horrible, she was bleeding all over the place of course.
I recently read something that said in the case of placenta accreta, a hysterectomy should be performed with no attempt at removing the placenta, but that seems strange to me. So I'm wondering what has been the experience of anyone else?
I know that this condition is also on the rise, thanks to our increasing cesarean rate. Have you guys been seeing an increase??
SmilingBluEyes
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yes she coded in the OR and "died"....and remembers some really scary stuff. she "chose" to come back. And I believe her.