Medical students/Nurses/Doctors evaluation on this...
Not for inducing job but its use during labour to speed labour up.
I'm interested because I know of a parenthood hospital whose policy is to use Picotin to speed to speed up labour so that all babies will be born in a certain time frame.
In more details – once a womwns contractions are 8 mintues apart if they suspect the child will not be born within 14 hours they will administer Picotin.
What do you suppose of this policy?
Is it dangerous or wise?
Keep contained by mind these are not woman whose labours are not proceeding normally. If the slog would naturally take 14 and 1/2 hours or 15 hours they would make available the picotin.
Would you be in support of a similar policy at your hospital?
Answers: Hi, I'm in the UK and I find it without doubt outrageous that a hospital would be irresponsible enough to use this drug solely for the reason of speeding up occupation so babies are born in a certain time frame!!
The drug is across the world used for Inducing labour in women next to Rh problems, diabetes, pre-eclampsia or when it is in the best interest of the mother or foetus... not to meet hospital target!! but then again, the way things hold changed with regards to the form service, it wouldn't surprise me. I've never seen or heard of this person done just for the purpose you have described, but I am not a midwife, I'm a Cardiology Nurse.
Compromising a patients robustness to meet target times would be a gross breach of health and safety/professional conduct. I'm not sure of the legalities, it depends what country you live contained by, I'm certain this is not in the UK? surely we haven't lost adjectives morals and plummeted to these low depths??.
That's a ridiculous policy! Mother Nature knows EXACTLY what she's doing and it should be up to the attending physician, NOT as a matter of hospital policy, to administer Pitocin to get faster labor and delivery.
I used Pitocin when I delivered because I wasn't dilating as hurriedly as my DOCTOR liked (not the hospital), and it was adjectives very carefully monitored.
You can read more here nearly uses and risks (which can be VERY serious and life threatening):
http://www.childbirth.org/articles/pit.h...
As a general adjectives, I do NOT endorse what the hospital in your scenario is doing. I reiterate that it should be the doctor, NOT the hospital that decide how a labor progresses..
I don't know that it would cause any harm...but surrounded by general I think it is a unpromising idea to administer drugs the patient doesn't requirement, just to make life span more convenient for the doctor.