Recent Posts in the Medical Terminology Category

• Causes of Brachial Plexus Injuries

  Aug 19, 2015
  An injury to the brachial plexus can be a devastating, life-changing injury to a child that occurs during birth. To identify these types of injuries, ...
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• Medical Instruments: How Do They Cause Birth Injuries?

  Aug 1, 2015
  Recently, the preferred method of expediting the delivery of infants who experience difficulties in labor or at birth has changed. In the past, ...
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• Medical Errors: Don't Get Sick in July!

  Jul 26, 2015
  The "July Effect": New Residents and New Obstacles If you've been feeling under the weather as of late, you may soon be able to breathe a big sigh of ...
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• Arrest of Descent and Cephalopelvic Disproportion (CPD)

  Jul 24, 2015
  The Relationship Between CPD/Cord, Head Compression, and Diminished Fetal Oxygen Reserves What is Cephalopelvic Disproportion (CPD)? Cephalopelvic ...
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• Recent Research on Pitocin and Tachysystole

  Jul 4, 2015
  Hyperstimulation or tachysystole are terms that define some of the ways that the uterus can be overstimulated during labor. During the process of ...
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• Operative Delivery by Forceps or Vacuum and Cerebral Palsy

  Jun 26, 2015
  Operative Delivery Via Forceps or Vacuum is Linked to Cerebral Palsy The use of devices, such as forceps or a vacuum (known as a "ventouse"), is a ...
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• The Costs of Accessible Living for Those with Cerebral Palsy

  Dec 1, 2014
  Grants Help Some, But Not All Caring for a child with special needs, such as cerebral palsy , carries a number of costs. Some of these costs are ...
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• Hemiplegia Awareness Week - October 15-19

  Oct 15, 2014
  The Definition of and Mechanisms that Cause Hemiplegia The week of October 15 is Hemiplegia Awareness Week, and to help educate, we wanted to do a ...
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