abstract background: committing an error is part of the human nature. no health care provider, despite the mastery of their skills, is immune from committing it. medical error in the labor and obstetrics wards as well as other health units is inevitable and reduces the quality of health care, leading to accident. sometimes these events, like the death of mother, fetus, and newborn, would be bey...

From the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (P.E.M.), the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (L.A.P.), and the Department of Anesthesiology (L.A.P.), Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia. Address reprint requests to Dr. Marik at Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, 834 Walnut St., Suite 650, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, or at paul.marik@ jeffers...

Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity Assay in Plasma, Chi Chiu Wang, Ching Yan Chu, Kai On Chu, Kwong Wai Choy, Kim Sun Khaw, Michael Scott Rogers, and Chi Pui Pang (Departments of 1 Obstetrics & Gynaecology and 3 Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong; 2 Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, The Chi...

We aimed at identifying a suitable data analysis approach to investigate potential patterns in the current medical coding in obstetrics and perinatal care. We processed the data reported for 2006 in DRG files from three Romanian university clinics of obstetrics-gynaecology and found substantial differences in the coding practices. Based on the evidence we found with a poor usage of the coding i...

Many countries have experimented with deploying remote obstetrics monitoring systems as a means of improving the quality of prenatal care. The next generation of remote obstetrics monitoring systems incorporate off-the-shelf equipment like commercial smartphones into their design, to not only reduce the cost of the monitoring equipment, but also to allow for greater flexibility by letting the p...

Objective: To determine the indications of emergency obstetrics hysterectomy (EOH) as a current situation in tertiary care Hospital Sindh. Material and Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at Gynaecology department Liaquat University Medical Health Sciences. The duration one year from January 2021 to December 2021. All women underwent obstetric hysterectomies, aged 18 4...

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...

School readiness includes not only the early academic skills of children but also their physical health, language skills, social and emotional development, motivation to learn, creativity, and general knowledge. Families and communities play a critical role in ensuring children's growth in all of these areas and thus their readiness for school. Schools must be prepared to teach all children whe...