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- Title
Briefly Legal: Failure to Diagnose a Classic Case of Spontaneous Intestinal Perforation (SIP).
- Authors
Sims, Maureen; Schifrin, Barry S.
- Abstract
The article focuses on a case of spontaneous intestinal perforation (SIP) in a preterm infant born to a mother with a history of cocaine use and placental abruption. Topics discussed include the pathophysiology, incidence, presentation, radiologic imaging, management, and differential diagnosis of SIP. On day of life 15, a surgical consult was obtained, and a cross-table lateral view revealed a pneumoperitoneum, leading to the diagnosis of SIP.
- Subjects
UNITED States; DIAGNOSTIC error laws; UTERINE hemorrhage; ABRUPTIO placentae; LEGAL liability; PREGNANT women; COLIC; DIFFERENTIAL diagnosis; NEGLIGENCE; COCAINE; INTESTINAL perforation; NEONATOLOGISTS; CHILDREN
- Publication
Neonatology Today, 2023, Vol 18, Issue 4, p63
- ISSN
1932-7129
- Publication type
Article