Heart Attack

Reports Summarize Heart Attack Study Results from Oregon Health and Science University

Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 15th, 2012

2012 MAR 15 -- "Since Roman times, physicians have been instructed to perform postmortem cesarean deliveries to aid in funeral rites, baptism, and in the very slim chance that a live fetus might still be within the deceased mother's womb. This procedure was disliked by physicians being called to a dying mother's bedside," scientists in Springfield, Oregon report.

"As births moved to hospitals, and modern obstetrics evolved, the causes of maternal death changed from sepsis, hemorrhage, and dehydration to a greater incidence of sudden cardiac arrest from medication errors or embolism. Thus, the likelihood of delivering a viable neonate at the time of a...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2012-03-15)

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