Ob/gyns with even a little gray hair have witnessed an extraordinary evolution in our collective thinking about cesarean delivery (CD) over the past three decades. I believe that a variety of factors are behind high CD rates in the United States, and that continued increases are inevitable.
Both high and low doses of oxytocin can safely and effectively induce or augment labor. When do you use each approach and when do high doses constitute abuse?
Is it possible to be too cautious about prescribing medication to a breastfeeding patient? Absolutely. Two experts in this area provide an informed, balanced perspective.
Thanks to advances in U/S technology, clinicians can now detect ventricular enlargement in its earliest stages. Unfortunately, a few fetuses with borderline ventriculomegaly still have chromosomal or structural malformations.
No one prepares you for the stresses of day-to-day practice--like keeping increasingly Internet-savvy and demanding patients satisfied--that take multitasking to a whole new level. Let's mentor residents and newcomers so they don't repeat our mistakes. It could help preserve our specialty.
These experts offer a common sense approach to reduce pregnancy-linked deaths.
Using a technique called super crowning, avoiding episiotomy, and reaching for a vacuum device rather than forceps during operative vaginal deliveries are among the strategies that can help reduce the number of third- and fourth-degree lacerations.
Here are several ways to help keep quality up and costs down for this common procedure.
We may have seen the first glimmer of light in the otherwise dark tunnel of the professional liability insurance crisis. On July 12, during a speech at the National Press Club, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist proposed "an expert medical court system with transparent decisions, limits on punitive damages, and scheduled compensatory damages to provide rapid relief to truly injured patients (instead of trial lawyers)" while holding negligent doctors accountable.
What's the right number of embryos to transfer in each patient? An authority on the subject discusses the newly released ASRM committee guidelines and their practical implications.
Although some critics continue to question the value of breast screening, the scientific evidence supporting it is rock solid.
What's the right number of embryos to transfer in each patient? An authority on the subject discusses the newly released ASRM committee guidelines and their practical implications.
My interest in infectious disease started in grade school, when I'd examine myself for the mysterious and fascinating rashes I saw in my parents' handbook on childhood illnesses.
Ending months of speculation, Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) has picked Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) as his running mate. Kerry's choice offers insights into his administration's likely health-care priorities. And unfortunately for ob/gyns, it also raises profound concerns about the prospects for federal tort reform during a Kerry-Edwards administration.
Here's what you need to know to identify patients at higher risk for SSIs and provide effective preventive strategies. These measures include good glucose control and well-timed prophylactic antibiotics.
Skillful interpretation of ultrasound images, hCG values, and patients' signs and symptoms can help identify ectopics early on. Once the diagnosis is made, salpingectomy, salpingostomy, and methotrexate are your therapeutic options.
An expert in the field provides a balanced approach to protecting patients from this potentially lethal infection.
An expert in the field provides a balanced approach to protecting patients from this potentially lethal infection.
In the 2 years since I completed my ob/gyn training, I've had four jobs in three different practice settings in three different cities. I'm now headed back where I started geographically, combining the practice of obstetrics and gynecology with raising a rambunctious 7-year-old boy and a 9-year-old Hllary Duff-wannabe as a single parent.
Letters of recommendation about former employees can put you in legal hot water?unless you follow these guidelines
