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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Absolutely go to a teaching hospital.  Shady Grove did nearly everything they could to let my wife bleed out.  PACU, ICU and radiology staff were not competent, confirmed by stories we heard from hospital staff weeks after the incident.  She ended up needing to get flown up to Baltimore, very nearly losing her arm to complications as they were desperately trying to save her life.[/quote]

I don't think they're well equipped to handle a lot of cases there. I know of two other women who were transferred from Shady Grove to Johns Hopkins after complications got out of hand.[/quote]

Indeed.  Looking back I don't know why, but we were more concerned about the babies going into the delivery, and we knew the head of the NICU there.

We still had our concerns.  My wife worked there years ago, and we never would have gone there for anything except a delivery.  We asked around to a several doctors in the community, and no one expressed any reservations about delivering there.  Of course, after the delivery the same doctors told us they didn't understand why went there in the first place.  I think that's a cultural thing with doctors- they don't want to criticize each other.

Still, I thought a hospital that does the number of deliveries SGMC does would be better equipped to handle a PPH.  I had no idea that they didn't actually have someone trained in how to do a uterine artery embolization properly. That radiologist doesn't realize how lucky he was that my wife isn't litigious, because we ended up learning a lot from friends that still worked in the hospital.[/quote]

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