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Michigan Program Lowers C-Sections Significantly
Michigan hospitals are attempting to reduce the number of unnecessary C-section deliveries, a reduction associated with healthier babies and a lower risk of birth injuries. The project is the work of the Michigan Health and Hospital Association Keystone obstetrics department. Implementing changes in Michigan hospital birthing procedures, it discourages elective or C-section births unless it is for medically necessary reasons. These include situations such as chronic disease, a mother carrying multiple babies or if the baby is small and developing slowly. With about 65 hospitals participating, almost every birthing center in the state is on board. The main emphasis of the project is education. It attempts to show women the advantages of waiting for natural birth, and eliminates many C-section births with the use of labor-inducing drugs after the 39th week as well as pain-relieving drugs and counseling during labor. From March 2010 to March 2011, elective C-sections before the…
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New Simulators Train Doctors to Prevent Birth Injuries
Everyone knows that in order to become skilled at a task, you must learn through experience. That is exactly what Noelle, an anatomically correct rubber model of a pregnant woman’s body embedded with computer chips, is doing for the obstetricians learning at Jacobi Hospital’s Institute for Medial Simulation and Advanced Learning. For obstetricians who want to prevent birth injuries from occurring during actual labor situations, this pregnant simulator with a simulated baby creates shoulder dystocia situations, oxygen problems, and other potential labor complications. According to International Business Times, some medical situations are rare in real-life settings, so that doctors may not have the opportunity to teach a resident in training. In addition, this on-the-job training often involves more descriptions of what the teacher is doing, rather than allowing the student to accomplish the task. The training classes that go along with the simulations at Jacobi Hospital also allow the doctors…
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Civilian doctor is considered government employee
A court ruled that civilian doctors working at a military hospital can be considered as government employees as far as the Federal Tort Claims Act is concerned. Saving Shiloh As a result of the U.S. Circuit Court ruling, a Navy serviceman and his wife won a $40 million award after their son suffered extensive birth trauma in a U.S. Navy hospital in Florida that resulted in severe brain injuries. Though the amount of the award is being disputed on appeal, a central facet of the case — that the civilian doctor was, for all intents and purposes, a government employee and therefore subject to FTCA — has withstood the court’s scrutiny. Parasomnia movie download Equilibrium ipod Obsessed full movie Dot.Kill movie Emotional Arithmetic move Military hospitals often hire civilian doctors on contract to supplement the ranks of military doctors, especially in non-military areas like obstetrics. This ruling will help families…
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