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- Title
Hysterectomy required for postpartum bleeding.
- Authors
Collins, Dawn
- Abstract
The article focuses on a lawsuit filed against an obstetrician by a woman who complained of memory loss and difficulty in concentrating five months after she delivered her third child in New York. After the delivery, the patient began bleeding which prompted the obstetrician to administer her with ocytocin, methylergonovine maleate and carboprost tromethamine. The woman developed a coagulation disorder and a paralytic ileus after she undergone hysterectomy. She claimed that the obstetrician tried to manually remove the placenta in the delivery room without anesthesia.
- Subjects
NEW York (State); OBSTETRICIAN malpractice; PREGNANCY complications; DELIVERY (Obstetrics); HEMORRHAGE; HYSTERECTOMY complications; ACTIONS &; defenses (Administrative law)
- Publication
Contemporary OB/GYN, 2005, Vol 50, Issue 12, p24
- ISSN
0090-3159
- Publication type
Article