To: nickcarraway
As a physician this makes me ill. This girl was 25-26 weeks pregnant. This baby was totally viable. What really bothers me is if this girl had showed up at the hospital with lets say ruptured membranes -----she would have been induced and delivered vaginally. What killed her is the fact that any surgical technique used for elective or spontaneous abortion is always risky espically in the 2nd trimester. It can not be done in a totally sterile manner because of the anatomy. If she had showded up with an interuterine demise at 25-26 weeks she would have been induced and delived the dead baby vaginally. Why? Because it is much safer than a surgical technique. I don't know but this girl did not die the day of the procedure. Her death if caused by infarction and sepsis was several days later and she was very ill. I do not understand the "Normal" cause of death. Death certificates do not allow for a "Normal" cause of death. She died of "infarction of the uterus and sepsis secondary to a 2nd timester elective abortion".
68 posted on
03/11/2004 9:54:30 PM PST by
therut
To: therut
I imagine that the confusion is the distinction between "natural causes" vs. "homicide."
But, there's no way that a death due to sepsis following closely on a surgical procedure should be recorded/reported without a explicit description, such as the one you gave.
I understand that the new, nationally standardized death certificates have a space for reporting whether or not the subject was pregnant within the past year.
86 posted on
03/11/2004 10:43:18 PM PST by
hocndoc
(Choice is the # 1 killer in the US)
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