If you haven’t yet joined the group of paid subscribers, join today! For less than the price of an hour of work, you can build a habit of reviewing weekly cases that will give you valuable expertise and help you avoid similar outcomes. A woman in her twenties presented to an OBGYN for her 5th pregnancy. She had one living child from the previous 4 pregnancies, and had pre-eclampsia following the delivery of her child.
Besides feeling like this witness is a little full of themselves and their successful career, I have few substantive thoughts about this case except that this expert needs someone to explain to them the connotations of the verb "opine."
Also that this office desperately needs a RCA on what happened with her blood pressures. Wrong cuff? Staff not wanting to make waves, recording happier numbers? Straight up malfunction? Weird vasovagal form of "white coat hypertension" where fear of the office made he BPs artificially low? IDK but they better figure it out ASAP.
interesting case. So the patient should have had followup labs when she continued to complain of symptoms. I wasn't aware that preeclampsia could also occur postpartum?
Expert Witness Case #9
Besides feeling like this witness is a little full of themselves and their successful career, I have few substantive thoughts about this case except that this expert needs someone to explain to them the connotations of the verb "opine."
Also that this office desperately needs a RCA on what happened with her blood pressures. Wrong cuff? Staff not wanting to make waves, recording happier numbers? Straight up malfunction? Weird vasovagal form of "white coat hypertension" where fear of the office made he BPs artificially low? IDK but they better figure it out ASAP.
interesting case. So the patient should have had followup labs when she continued to complain of symptoms. I wasn't aware that preeclampsia could also occur postpartum?