Mayday! 3: The Bad Old Days ~ Childbirth before the scientific practice of medicine & discovery of antibiotics

by faithgibson May 5, 2019

Easy-to-share link:  https://tinyurl.com/y3rbgdet Part 3 But first, a brief synopsis of part 2 Obstetrics — Before and after the rise of modern medical science Scientific obstetrics remains one of the most important medical miracles of all times. Before childbearing women and newborns had access to modern obstetrical medicine and equipped hospitals, simply being a childbearing […]

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Mayday Series: 2B ~ Honoring the lives of 19th Century Medical Heroes Semmelweis, Gordon, White, Holmes, Lister & Koch

by faithgibson May 4, 2019

28-minute read Chapter 2-B: A longer, but more trip in the Way-Back Machine If you started reading the Mayday series, you already know that is devoted to fixing a very specific problem — the inappropriate and potentially dangerou use of electronic fetal monitor on healthy laboring women with normal or “low-risk” pregnancies. Chapter 1 described […]

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Mayday! Mayday! 2A ~ How & why did American obstetrics stray so far from its noble foundations?

by faithgibson May 3, 2019

Easy link for sharing ~https://tinyurl.com/y5gsetf6 Section 2A (of 2) ~ 1940 How did American obstetrics stray so far from its noble foundations? The historic purpose of obstetrical medicine was to safeguard the life and wellbeing of laboring women under their care and relative to all circumstances of pregnancy and childbirth, both normal and complicated. Unfortunately, the […]

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Mayday Series: 1D ~ Hospital Economics: the Big Blue Elephant in the labor room that is wasting millions of healthcare dollars & results in preventable maternal deaths

by faithgibson May 2, 2019

1700 words  The Big Blue Elephant in the Room: the hospital economics of c-EFM and the unproductive expenses billed to health insurance carriers and the federal Medicaid program The question here is pretty simple: Are state, county and federal governments, other 3rd party payers (insurance companies) and those who must pay out-of-pocket are getting an […]

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Mayday 1C: Auscultation ~ traditional & scientifically-validated way to listen to FHR

by faithgibson May 1, 2019

Auscultation (also known as hands-on listening) is a non-continuous method used since the early 20th century to monitor fetal well-being (i.e. the verb, not the machine) during active labor. A physician, midwife or L&D nurse uses a fetoscope or hand-held Doppler to regularly listens to the fetal heart rate and rhythm and record the information on the […]

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