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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is a reasonable amount of time to walk thru the front door in an emergency C-section situation and get paperwork, a doctor, a room for the surgery, and anesthesia?  Was the baby past the stage where the doctor could give her something to slow things down like when someone is going into pre-term labor?  I can't see awarding $55 million unless it is gross negligence on the part of the hospital.  I could see myself going with an award in a scenario where the hospital had all the info, was monitoring the baby, and chose to go with a vaginal birth instead of a c-section even though there was some medical piece of info that would make the c-section less risky for the baby.[/quote]

If you fly through the door of our hospital "needing" a C section, the fastest it could happen is in about 30 minutes, assuming the elevators are working, but [b]considering they got the call from the ambulance, they could have got her to the OR less time.[/b] HOWEVER, and evaluation SHOULD take place. There have been stat C sections on women who are not even pregnant. No kidding, and for that you also get sued.[/quote]

I agree with the bolded part, they could have had her on the table in 15 minutes (and I know of cases when that happened). Regardless of the attempting home birth, part, she's not the first woman to arrive to L&D in the last stage of labor.

C sections on non-pregnant women is gross negligence. It takes a few seconds to confirm fetal heart rate with a doppler; or get an U/S machine in there to see the fetus!.[/quote]

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