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...Electronic fetal monitoring is used in many hospital maternity units during labor and delivery. A sonar-like ultrasound system keeps track of the baby's heart rate, and an electrically wired belt across the mother's abdomen notes uterine contractions. Electrodes are attached to the baby's head to get an electrocardiogram. Blood samples for analysis may be drawn from the baby's scalp. The object: to detect fetal problems early enough for physicians to intervene. The U.S. spends some $80 million a year on this effort, and the fetal death rate...
...eyes. "The stitches weren't even closed. Blood was oozing, and I saw this hole on the left side of my stomach." As she told a Manhattan court, her belly button had been displaced half an inch to the left, and a thick scar wound across her abdomen from thigh to thigh. Her doctor's promise to give her "a nice flat, sexy belly" with a routine operation called a lipectomy, or tummy tuck, had turned into a nightmare...
...have devised a prenatal blood test that may avert those heart-rending abortions. Once amniocentesis determines that a woman is carrying a male child, doctors use a technique called fetoscopy to obtain a sample of the baby's blood. They make an incision in the woman's abdomen, then insert a tubular fiber-optic device to locate one of the baby's blood vessels on the placenta. Using a tiny needle, they withdraw a few drops of the baby's blood, which is analyzed by radioimmunoassay techniques for factor VIII. To date, investigators have used...
Herbig was found with stab wounds in the chest and abdomen at 4 a.m. on January 17, and died in the emergency room of the George Washington Hospital a little more than an hour later...
Peritoneal dialysis is not for everyone who suffers kidney failure. Some object to the prospect of a permanent hole in the abdomen. Others are not fastidious enough; the dialysate bags must be handled with extreme care to avoid dangerous abdominal infections. Still, peritoneal dialysis has important advantages. CAPD's developers, Chemical Engineer Robert Popovich and Nephrologist Jack Moncrief, both of Austin, Texas, point out that it is simpler and, except for infections, less risky than using a kidney machine at home. A patient, for instance, can safely sleep through the procedure without the risk of bleeding to death...