PATIENT DATA | 'What about my baby?' |
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The rest of the Story To cut a long story short, this case carries on into the whole process of antenatal care. Mrs Tring develops a blood pressure problem (pre-eclampsia of pregnancy) and has to be delivered by lower segment Caesarian section at only 29 weeks gestation for her own health as well as that of her baby. The baby suffers from prematurity, with respiratory distress syndrome, but does well in the neonatal intensive care unit and is able to go home about 40 days after delivery. Within the story there are numerous tests and investigations on both mother and baby, and each of these tests has a link to the report form or image exactly as it would be presented to the attending doctor - just click on the underlined hyperlinks below to see how this is done:
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