Word: tricomi
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Avoid a Caesarean? In the U.S., only at New York City's Kings County Hospital has the vacuum extractor received extensive trial. Dr. Vincent Tricomi and colleagues have used it in 125 births since last September. Keenly aware of the suspicious attitude of the profession generally, they have been even more conservative than the British in selection of cases. But they have seen no ill effects, and believe the vacuum cup may save many mothers from difficult and dangerous forceps deliveries, or the alternative of a caesar-ean.* On results to date, the Brooklyn doctors are "cautiously enthusiastic...
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