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Diagnosing the Reason for the Cesarean Section

Published on Wed Sep 11, 2024

Question: My question is on this case shown below regarding the diagnosis of the baby in occiput position (OP), asynclitic, and the insufficient epidural. At the end, the provider stated, “Patient temp 100 degrees F skin, patient tachycardic throughout the procedure plan to continue antibiotics for 24 hours.” On these, I came up with O75.2 and O89.82 with R00.0. Is that [...]
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