I work in a Catholic hospital, so these situations do not happen. We occasionally transfer out a mom who wants to deliver, but we have had several babies who have been delivered at a viable age after...
My second delivery, I monitored myself because of decreased fetal movement. Absolutely flat strip ( no decels initially) MD tried induction but repetitive late decels with emergency c-section for...
I would say hypotension with epidurals, unintentional intravascular injections, wet taps, spinal headaches and treatment with blood patches, difficult intubations, emergency tracheotomies, malignant...
The OB chief of staff and our perinatologist both refused to allow Cytotec for use in live birth inductions in our hospital. They told us that studies of the literature show only cost as a proven...
We are in the planning stages for a new hospital that will be completed in about 5 years. We are currently debating between LDRs with family suites to follow on the M/B unit or LDRPs. We are a level...
We have also been talking about having the two types of units. The problems I see with this are that the L&D nurses I work with, like to work with both high and low risk moms. It also reminds me...