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?
Yes, preeclampsia can occur postpartum as well... not common but happens enough that it comes up periodically in med mal cases. Often missed by non-OB physicians.
Yes indeed. A good rule of thumb in maternal physiology is that the radical physical changes (and associated risks) of the third trimester don't vanish instantly at delivery. This is true of preeclampsia, clotting complications (DVT, PE, venous sinus thrombosis), pituitary gland apoplexy, and gestational diabetes.
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?
Yes, preeclampsia can occur postpartum as well... not common but happens enough that it comes up periodically in med mal cases. Often missed by non-OB physicians.
Yes indeed. A good rule of thumb in maternal physiology is that the radical physical changes (and associated risks) of the third trimester don't vanish instantly at delivery. This is true of preeclampsia, clotting complications (DVT, PE, venous sinus thrombosis), pituitary gland apoplexy, and gestational diabetes.