Have you ever opened a chart of a very sick or obtunded patient, only to find it completely blank? Of course you have…probably at some point today. The minor panic that having to find vital collateral information in a timely fashion induces can be hard to shake. Is it unavoidable? Traditionally when health records were […]
ED Postpartum Hemorrhage
Posted onSo you’re in the ED and a G9P8 patient at 40w2d rolls in with contractions every 3 minutes. Before sending the patient upstairs you do a brief examination and you see this… You deliver the baby flawlessly and even protect the perineum like a pro; however, the baby is quickly followed by the placenta […]