of an inquiry into the death of a psychiatric colleague that raised a number of important questions – not least regarding our management of women with bipolar disorder in pregnancy and the postpartum period (North East London Strategic Health Authority, 2003). Dr Daksha Emson took the life of herself and her 3-month-old daughter, Freya. This tragedy took place during a psychotic episode trigger...

literature of the subject suffices to show how well founded this statement is. The disease itself is actually about three times as common in the male sex as in the female. But of forty-nine fatal cases occurring in the female, in the statistics of Kanthack and Kelynack, we find eight put down to puerperal infection? an average of rather more than 16 per cent. On the other hand, the occurrence o...

There are inexpensive and rapid bacteriologic tests available that allow veterinarians as well as dairy producers to make real-time decisions to better manage udder health in their herds. The commercial on-farm culture system (OFCS) that will be discussed include Petrifilm plates (3M Microbiology) and Minnesota Easy Culture System. Petrifilm plates are ready-to-use culture media that are used p...

To express in public an opinion or to make any suggestion whatsoever with regard to the etiology, the pathology, or the treatment of puerperal sepsis, seems at the present day to provoke such a torrent of criticism that it is practically courting disaster to mention the subject at all. It is, therefore, with considerable diffidence that I approach the subject to-night. It is, however, with only...

cleared the other three. His total time in the water for the nine dives was 44 minutes (figure). His subsequent neurological and musculoskeletal decom-pression sickness was successfully treated with hyper-baric oxygen according to the US Navy table No 6. Surface 18 m u_ A *-Surface interval 3 hours-B _-Time Dive profile, case 1. Total time in water (A +B) was 44 minutes (US Navy no stops time a...

An analysis was made of 111 consecutive cases of puerperal thromboembolism by the age, parity, mode of delivery, and lactation habit of the women concerned, and the findings were compared with those from control groups.The statistics show that inhibition of lactation by means of ethinyloestradiol is associated with a threefold increase in thromboembolism, although the effect is seen mainly in w...

OBJECTIVE To estimate whether a new preoperative skin preparation protocol decreases postcesarean delivery infectious complications. METHODS We performed a retrospective cohort study. A povidone-iodine (13%) scrub followed by povidone-iodine (10%) paint (SCRUB+PAINT) protocol was compared with standard paint alone (PAINT). Patients and outcomes were identified using diagnosis-related group an...

Puerperal sepsis is an infective condition of the woman following childbirthand one leading causes death.