Cocaine in obstetrics

General Obstetrics and Gynecology: Obstetrics

Objective: We tested if fetal pulse oximetry in addition to electronic fetal monitoring (CTG) and scalp blood sampling improves the accuracy of fetal assessment and allows safe reduction of operative deliveries ( 50%) and scalp blood sampling ( 50%) performed because of nonreassuring fetal status. Study design: A randomized controlled trial was conducted in 146 patients with term pregnancies in...

Silent Cocaine Poisoning

Background: Cocaine poisoning is known for causing severe clinical effects such as tachycardia, hypertension, agitation and confusion. Absence of clinical manifestations in cocaine poisoning is unusual. Case report: A 26-year old man, known to be a cocaine addict, declared that he was forced by cocaine dealers to swallow many tablets of cocaine, six hours prior to admission to emergency departm...

Obstetrics

The prevention and treatment of post-partum hemorrhage is a subject of never-failing interest to the practitioner, and in view of the sudden and frequently fatal catastrophe which may ensue as the result of its occurrence, every attempt to suggest new or improved methods for either its prevention or cure demands careful examination. Stanmore Bishop,1 as the result of an article on this subject,...

Obstetrics

every month, after a period of prodromes consisting of headache and general lassitude, a flow of clear non-coagulable blood took place from the right ear, in which no pre-existing local lesion could be determined. After three years the ordinary genital discharge began to take place, gradually replacing that from the ear, which only occurred every two or three months. The author remarks that the...

Obstetrics