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16 Cards in this Set
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What replaced the forceps delivery?
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Vacuum Extractor - Vemtouse
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What is Vacuum Extractor?
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Cap applied to fetal head to which suction can be applied.
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What are the advantages of Vacuum Extractor compared to forceps?
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Avoids placing steel blades in vagina; requires less skill; allows you to rotate fetus with suction on head without putting force or pressure on maternal tissues; less force applied to fetal head during maneuver;
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When Vacuum Extractor was first designed it was made of _____ but now it is made of ______.
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Metal; Plastic
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What happens if woman is in obstructed labor and baby wont come out and no facilities to do forceps or vacuum extraction or C Section?
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labor does not stop! it continues until natural end.
1. Uterus might rupture from contracting so long and hard nad this forces fetus nad placenta into abdomen. 2. woman can bleed to death or die from exhaustion from length of process 3. fetus dies from asphyxiation because it cannot stand stress of long process and then baby decays and becomes mushy and slides out as still born. Mother is alive with pelvic injuries. Tissues of pelvis are compressed and die from fetal head. She is often left with hole from destruction of tissue separating bladder from vagina. She cannot control urine - Fistula |
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Who started the Fistula Hospital in Adis Adibaba In the fistula movie?
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Two Gynecologists from Australia - Reg and Katherine Hanlen
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Throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, the total capacity for a fistula surgery is about _______ per year.
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10,000
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There are approximately _______ women waiting for this fistula surgery.
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3.5 million
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What does the World Wide Fistula Fund do?
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This fund develops educational materials for surgical training. They are also involved in constructing a fistula hospital in West Africa. This is the oldest fistula charitable organization.
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Define C-Section.
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A C-Section is the delivery of a baby through a surgical incision made through the abdomen and the uterus rather than allowing the baby to be born through the normal vaginal route.
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When is a C-Section usually performed?
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It is performed when there is emergency requiring immediate delivery of baby for reasons pertaining to mother's health, fetus' health, or when vaginal delivery seems impossible
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Why is the origin of C-Section controversial?
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There are many different legends for the origin of C-SECTION
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What is the German Term for C-Section?
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Kaiserschitt
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What are the legends for the origin of the C-SECTION?
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1. They think Julius Caesar was born in this way but the fact that he was alive during his life is proof that it probably wasn't a C-Section because she would have died at that time.
2. From ancient Roman law - Lex Regia (Royal Law) - C -Section used to remove fetus from dead mother to bury mother and fetus separately 3. Caedere - medeival Latin word meaning to cut - CSection might derive from this verb |
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When and where was first C-Section done on living woman?
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Scotland in 1737 and woman died few hours later
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Who performed the first C-Section in which the mother survived? When?
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James Barlow in 1793
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