Disturbing the surgeon? It's delivering a baby not neurosurgery.
Have you ever been in an OR? The only ones that have been "quiet" and not disturbing the doctor are the few mins when the doctor needs to super focus on something hyper critical; typically in neurosurgery or something with microsurgery. Otherwise most have music going and are hanging out and shooting the shit along with treating the patient.
When my son was born we were cracking jokes with the entire staff in the OR (Planned C-Section); hell the nurses were harassing the assisting doctor for his safety glasses and the whole room was just fun and laughing the entire time.
Are you a medical professional stating this? If so, how many C-sections have you been involved with?
Liters huh? Interesting... based on CDC and published US health information only 1-3% of routine c-sections require a transfusion where the blood-loss is greater than 1000ml OR 1 Liter. Seems pretty-uncommon in any statistical analysis I've seen.
If you're measuring blood loss in liters during a routine C-Section then something has gone HORRIBLY wrong!
You do not need to immediately transfuse blood losses of a liter in term women. Measuring this by transfusion is just a stupid metric. Just yesterday I had a 1900mL bleed, no blood needed intra-op.
I don't really give much of a shit what you - a layperson - makes of a cursory Google of LSCS statistics.
If you're measuring blood loss in liters during a routine C-Section then something has gone HORRIBLY wrong!
No, it's gone very normal amounts of wrong. Which is literally my point. Absolutely nobody in an obstetric theatre would think twice about seeing 2+L EBL on the board, it's routine for the setting and surgery. They just go "oh, one of these".
In neurosurgery-land big spine cases can sometimes run up similar loss but it's over like 6x as long a time period and the patient and partner aren't in the room watching the bloodbath.
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u/Gwendolyn-NB Apr 24 '26
Disturbing the surgeon? It's delivering a baby not neurosurgery.
Have you ever been in an OR? The only ones that have been "quiet" and not disturbing the doctor are the few mins when the doctor needs to super focus on something hyper critical; typically in neurosurgery or something with microsurgery. Otherwise most have music going and are hanging out and shooting the shit along with treating the patient.
When my son was born we were cracking jokes with the entire staff in the OR (Planned C-Section); hell the nurses were harassing the assisting doctor for his safety glasses and the whole room was just fun and laughing the entire time.