The Hidden Cost of Poor Hospital Waste Management
(MedPage Today) -- "Can we get the table up?" the surgeon asks as she and her team prepare my patient for her very first c-section. I stumble behind the blue drapes, hurriedly feeling for the cold remote and sliding my fingers over the correct... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - April 18, 2024 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Undocumented woman says she was denied emergency C-section at Edmonton hospital
Alberta Health Services is investigating after an undocumented woman says she was denied an emergency C-section at an Edmonton hospital last month. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Edmonton Source Type: news
UMass Memorial launches first postpartum home hospital program in US
After a C-section, a UMass Memorial surgeon was able to receive hospital-level care from the comfort of her own home. She said it was her "easiest recovery" from the procedure. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 14, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Cassie McGrath Source Type: news
Esketamine After C-Section Eased Postpartum Depression Symptoms
(MedPage Today) -- Intravenous esketamine given during and after C-section diminished postpartum depression (PPD) symptoms early after birth, a randomized controlled trial in China showed.
Women who received IV esketamine had a significantly lower... (Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN)
Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN - March 6, 2024 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Doctors insisted my baby was fine... so why did I have a stillbirth just two days later? Agony of 18-year-old who was 'fobbed off' throughout her nightmare pregnancy
Madison Goodwin from Essex was told she needed an emergency c-section. But in the waiting room, medics then told her she had been mixed up with another patient. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Doc's Dirty Needle Accusation; Child Abuse Doc Faces Lawsuits; C-Section Error Suit
(MedPage Today) -- Pennsylvania physician John Park, MD, has been charged for allegedly using unsanitary needles during nerve block injections. (WPXI)
Two new lawsuits have been filed against Lehigh Valley Health Network and its child abuse pediatrician... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - February 1, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Childbirth in a war zone
Childbirth is fraught under the best of circumstances. A woman can be laboring in a hospital surrounded by medical professionals and still have something go seriously wrong, necessitating a 2 a.m. emergency C-section (ask me how I know). But what about a woman going through labor in a war zone?…#anesthesia #gaza #israel #israeli #palestinian #gazan #hamas #egypt #abdelfattahelsisi #palestinians (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Dexmedetomidine Cuts Incidence of Postpartum Depression After C-Section
FRIDAY, Jan. 26, 2024 -- For women with prenatal depression undergoing cesarean delivery, dexmedetomidine reduces the incidence of positive postpartum depression (PPD) screening, according to a study published online Jan. 25 in JAMA Network... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - January 26, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Ethiopia: Reviving Tigray's Health System to Prevent Maternal Deaths
[UNFPA] On November 22nd, 2023, for the first time in over a year after the conflict, surgeons at Adi Daero Primary Hospital started to bring life into the world again. Forty-year-old Wahid Hadush became the first mother to deliver a healthy baby via Cesarean section. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 10, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: East Africa Ethiopia Health and Medicine Pregnancy and Childbirth Source Type: news
Racial Disparities Persist in General Anesthesia Rates for C-Section
TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 -- Racial disparities in the rates of general anesthesia use persist among patients undergoing cesarean delivery, according to a study published online Jan. 9 in JAMA Network Open.
Caroline Leigh Thomas, M.D., from the... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - January 10, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
C-Section Tied to Subsequent Reduced Fecundability, Infertility
THURSDAY, Jan. 4, 2024 -- Among women with more than one child, those who had a previous cesarean delivery subsequently had a lower fecundability ratio and an increased infertility risk than those who had a vaginal delivery, according to a study... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - January 4, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Personalized Protocol Cuts Opioid Prescribing After C-Section
TUESDAY, Jan. 2, 2024 -- A personalized protocol for opioid prescriptions after cesarean delivery reduces the median morphine milligram equivalents prescribed at discharge, according to a study recently published in the American Journal of... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - January 2, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Intervention Improves Outcomes For Women With Previous C-Section
(MedPage Today) -- For women with a previous cesarean section, an intervention aimed at supporting decision making reduced perinatal and maternal morbidity compared with usual care, the Canadian PRISMA trial found.
Those in the intervention group... (Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN)
Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN - December 18, 2023 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Is obesity driving the rising rate of babies being delivered by C-section? Nearly one in five are now born via caesarean, figures show
Nearly one in five babies last year were delivered by C-section with experts suggesting the trend could be due to obesity or women waiting till they are older to fall pregnant. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
One in five babies are delivered by C-section as experts say it could be due to obesity
Nearly one in five babies last year were delivered by C-section with experts suggesting the trend could be due to obesity or women waiting till they are older to fall pregnant. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
