lsu_university_h_in_no

studies have shown that at
least 40% of maternal deaths
could have been prevented
with improved quality of care.

Charity Hospital CEO put on leave - Breaking News from New
Orleans ...Jul 11, 2008 ... Interesting:
http://blankaperidot.com/letter_to_lsu_hospital_ceo_thomas

Blanka Peridot and Teresa Flisiuk - ALL MY ADS
YOU CANNOT ACCESS ...Lazy people that a poor
man feeds. gorging as the strong one bleeds. So
every hatred that hatred breeds. Only stops when
beauty leads". "That's not me ...
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Blanka Peridot and Teresa Flisiuk - BLANKA
MURDERED AT LSU ...ONE OF THE "POOR"
BLOODY FOREIGNERS, OKECHUKWU LSU
MEDICAL RESIDENTS AND HIV/AIDS/SARS
WORK OF SHAKEEL AHMED IBNE
MAHMOOD-... IL FAUT QUE TU RESPIRES, ...
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LSU University
Hospital
in New Orleans

teresaflisiuk.info

Shortly after midnight June 24, 2007, Perez was called to Emergency Boot of
OB/GYN to confirm Autery not finding pulse in the fetus of pregnant Blanka
Peridot as reportedly a protocol asks for such an assurance. That one he
granted and dismissed our daughter claim of very recent baby movement
with totally preposterous statement "The fetus has not been viable for two
days" The damages caused by these few words were many and of grave
consequences. Any laymen leafing through "Neontology" shortest version
would find out that there is no way render such statement. Maceration starts
few hours after intrauterine demise,a nd at least skin slippage is present after
about eight. Dr. Autery did not protest this opinion proving ignorance of both
residents. That in effect stymied any thought of an attempt of emergency
delivery by physician in charge Autery. More with Blanka's father present
and mother on the phone it soured contact with their daughter, as parents

tended to believe "learned" opinion of Perez.
Perez is guilty of buffoonery and grandstanding, total lack of professionalism
to a mortal detriment of the patient,her baby and her family.

Brandon Perez PH.Resident

Anesthesiologist in charge of epidural and anesthesia on early morning
hours June 24 before induced delivery of presumed deceased infant
boy of Blanka Peridot.
First duty of an anesthesiologist is to independently examine and
evaluate a patient who is about to undergo prescribed procedure. Dr.
Sam failed to determine , through physical examination, blood work,
and any other means any sign of late stage of infection in her lungs, if
one believes medical record, which caused her death in about 24
hours later. Instead he administered her a battery of respiratory
depressants speeding up her demise.

Paul Samm PH.

Lorissia Autery,
Resident, Howard
Univ.
52 Camellia Terrace
New Orleans, La,
70114
Beeper 538 0979
lautery@tulane.edu

C.Anderson, RN
baptized Clancy
Peridot

Ghazala Azam,
Resident, Pakistan
gazam@lsuhsc.edu

Rev.Jerry Bass
Pastoral Care
Department
Medical Center of
Louisiana
2021 Perdido St
NOLA 70112
W 504 903 3175
h 504 737 7505
jbass1@lsuhsc.edu
Mrs.Carter
Beeper 477 0048

Coroner
Orleans parish
Forensic Center
2612 Martin Luther
King Blvd.
NOLA 70113
504 658 9660
Frank Minyard
John Gagliano
Rachel
Julia

M.Fisher RN
Nurse Sunday July 24
7 - 19

Ann Gomez
8112 Willow Street
NOLA, 70117

Fr.Perry Henry
St. Joseph Church
!802 Tulane Ave.
NOLA, 70112
504 522 3186
Bradley Kieffer,
Resident, South
Illinois
b.05.06.77
Beeper 423 2530
bkieff@lsuhsc.edu

Lorena Lisi (md
McPhate)
b. 01.21.64
Diego Lopez-Osa,
Resident, Argentina
953 E. Lexington
Terrytown, La 70056
504 433 8946
dlopez@lsuhsc.edu

Louisiana Organ
Procurement Agency
LOPA
4441 N.I-10 Service
Road
Metairie, La 70006
504 837 3355
info@lopa.org

Fr.E.Miguel
Capuchin Franciscan
Fathers
1404 Erato St.
NOLA 70130
504 525 4226

Wiliam P. Newman, III
b. 08.09.41
Professor of Pathology
1901 Perdido Street
New Orleans, La,
70112
wnewma@lsuhsc.edu
504 568 6077
504 568 6031 - Dept.
of Pathology

Thomas Nolan, MD
504 568 8663
tnolan@lsuhsc.edu

Frida Orrego - ICU
Nurse Supervisor
Beeper 423 0268

Patient Advocate
1532 Tulane Ave.
NOLA 70112
504 903 8987

Brandon Perez,
Resident, Ross Univ.
b.07.19.77
Beeper 538 9615
bperez1@tulane.edu
Records - University
Hospital
CUSTODIAN OF
RECORDS
1541 Tulane Ave.
Room 103
New Orleans, La
70112
fax requeats 504 903
1292

Paul Samm, MD,
Anesth
psamm@lsuhsc.edu

Todd Tastouville, RN
prepared and taged

Thompson, RN

University Hospital
504 903 3000
S.Woods, RN July 24
till 7am

L. Autery was first physician to examine and determine course of
treatment of Blanka Peridot. She failed to diagnose and treat. She failed to
investigate complaints that brought Blanka Peridot to the Emergency
Room of University Hospital. Back pain and seizures. Instead she made
determination about intrauterine demise and alleged drug addiction on
the base of Blanka's frankly revealing taking a single dose of a drug two
hours prior to arrival to the hospital. She ignored alarming blood work of
the patient, failed to order bacterial tests, ignored assurance of very
recent baby movement and failed to start immediate surgical delivery of
viable fetus. She certainly ordered not one but two drug screens and
created atmosphere of social condemnation of the patient that is visible
vividly in medical records, passed on to nurses and other physicians. She
failed to consult with senior physician about complicated case. As a
result a patient with galloping infection did not receive any treatment of
original complaint, delivery was delayed five hours, infant died sometime
but was delivered with healthy tight skin. After that Blanka was deemed
ambulatory and was dully given Methadone (respiratory depressant) ,
late next evening few hours before her death as prescribed by L.Autery.

Lorissia Autery PH. Resident.

Blanka Peridot and Teresa Flisiuk -
POKER, HORSES, AND CORPSES
DIRECT LINK TO
www.blankaperidot.com

Ting-Li Wang/The New York Times
Dr. Frank Minyard has been the
coroner of Orleans Parish since
1974. "In any other city," he says,
"I couldn't be elected dog
catcher."

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MAHMOOD - GLOBAL FRAUD Exposing
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MAHMOOD - GLOBAL FRAUD Exposing
ruthless opportunist, a fraud named Shakeel
Ibne Mahmood. He cares for all the ills of the
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okechukwu

Blanka Peridot and Teresa
Flisiuk- Letter to LSU
DIRECT LINK to
www.blankaperidot.com

Everything; all the names, institutions shall come together in the
murder of my daughter, BLANKA TERESA FLISIUK PERIDOT and
her baby, CLANCY PERIDOT..
Furthermore, as I promised, EVERYTHING shall be disclosed and
published. HOWEVER, The statue of limitation and legal actions
have been extended , and at the present time the case is pending
in the LOUISIANA MEDICAL PANEL REVIEW: this , too, will be
explained and documented in the due time. All the documents and
cross references, timetables, ALL THE LEGAL & PERSONAL
applications, relevant to the murder of BLANKA TERESA FLISIUK
PERIDOT shall be judged in the courtroom, but most important -
in the PUBLIC FORUM. Time will tell !
They know that I know, but they don't know - WHAT I KNOW !
This laconic message is the reminder of everything what I have
stated from the beginning of this nightmare. And, yes, LSU had
not come forward and/or taken my desperate offer, which would
be routine in any "natural death". I wanted to know what anyone
would, if their loved one died in the hospital, and not "only"
during ONE-DAY-HOSPITAL-STAY ! Routine too...
They had murdered my family, my past even, while there is no
future.
They had not fired OKECHUKWU after her lawsuit against the
LSU, what makes those, who decided to keep her on the LSU
Staff, despite her incompetence, directly guilty for her "actions"
which contributed ultimately to the lack of adequate attempt to
save BLANKA TERESA FLISIUK PERIDOT , after she had been
injured and overdosed by the actions and via beeper-orders of
the "physicians".
Why pathologist? It was the unexplained death, Coroner's Case,
and while, once OB/GYN physician, Minyard, is protected as the
ELECTED OFFICIAL from the Louisiana Medical Panel
investigation, he had not objected to the autopsy performed by
LSU and their pathologist in this obvious conflict-of-interest self
fulfilling justifications in their self proclaimed rights. Dying are
lingering to life beyond the professional expected prognosis and
their own strength.
BLANKA TERESA PERIDOT was calling for help in the HOSPITAL
where she had been ignored until she had died within few hours.
Poker, Horses, and Corpses is the la Nouvelle-Orléans Mafia ( I
will write articles) and the trademark conspiracy of that town.
Like my daughter, BLANKA TERESA FLISIUK PERIDOT I will speak
for all disadvantaged and resigned.
God Bless You,
Teresa Flisiuk Chrzanowski

beatrice
okechukwu

beatrice okechukwu

JOAN
RIVERS-ALIKE
-DOCTOR'S WIFE

DID YOU KNOW THAT FRANK MADE
HIS OB/GYN "FORTUNE" AT OMEGA
? WOMEN AS A DISEASE IS VERY
PROFITABLE IN THE HANDS OF THE
MALE EXPERTS. i WILL WRITE
ABOUT LSU EXPERIENCE, I HAD
HAVING THE INSURED BABY.

NEWMAN IN HIS SHOP

BABY CLANCY WITH
THE
CRUSHED SKULL

COLLEGE NEWS
Thursday, June 19, 2008
--- LSU Health Sciences Center ---
After serving a one-year term as president-elect, Dr. Thomas Nolan, professor and chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at LSU Health Sciences Center New
Orleans School of Medicine, was installed as the president of the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons at its annual meeting in Savannah.
The society is a group of more than 250 doctors representing private practice and academic faculty. All are involved in teaching and the practice of advanced gynecologic surgery.

Ongoing Needs in Affected Areas
The March of Dimes says the long-term needs for mothers and
babies in affected areas that must be addressed over the next 3 to
12 months include:

an expected rise in the number of babies born prematurely,
who will require specialized NICUs, equipment and care;
a potentially large increase in the number of births in towns and
cities such as Baton Rouge and Jackson, Mississippi that are
housing evacuees, putting strain on existing facilities and services;
organizing and deploying more outreach workers and trained
health professionals to provide prenatal care and counseling for
displaced pregnant women;
updated information for pregnant women and families on available
services as situations change;
multivitamins with folic acid for women of childbearing age and
pregnant women to reduce the risk of neural tube birth defects;
purchasing infant and child vaccinations for shelters and clinics..

BORN TO KILL MY DAUGHTER, OUR ENTIRE BEING,
AND THE LIFE, WHICH BLANKA GAVE ME IN 1976.

Lorissia Rhea Autery
born 1976 [sic]
1990 -1994 Midfield High School, Birmingham , Alabama, res.1102 Thornwood Dr,
Birmingham Al, 35209
2005 Graduated from Howard University College of Medicine, Washington DC, res. 9220
Edward's Way, Hyattsville, Md, 20783
Howard University is nicknamed "Black Harvard" and produces the most colored PhDs
from traditionally black universities and colleges.
2005 - 2006 First year of residency at Tulane University School of Medicine - Salary
$40.528,
three weeks of paid vacation.
2006 - 2007 Second year House Officer. Salary $41.720, one month of paid vacation.
Present time - third year of residency, salary $43.242 one month of paid vacation.
lautery@tulane.edu
52 Camellia Terrace, New Orleans, La 70114 (Algiers)
504 309 7667

( like some African-American females scream in their hystherical, and squeaky
(unbearable) voices: " get some education !"...).

Measured in Ounces
Louisiana has one of the highest
proportion of low-birthweight babies in the
nation. The results can be death or
disabilities. The cause is often a
mystery.

The "mystery" is INSURANCE
!!!

ASK DR. MILLER and/or
professor DIKET !
Since I had complicated, HIGH
RISK PREGNANCIES ( except
BLANKA...) , WITH TWO
PREMATURE, CLANCY'S
AGE, but NO C-Sections,
abortions, or miscarriages, I will
publish article about premature
babies going to Heaven, but
sent there by the lack of
insurance, as well, as other
interesting OB/GYN TOPICS
from my experiences.
My children were not " just
born premature ", but had
suffered pregnancy diseases,
while mother suffered as well,
from pregnancy-related, rare
illness.
THIS IS NOT ONLY MEDICAL
ISSUE, BUT MEDICO-LEGAL,
AND SOCIAL AS WELL.
"Women as a disease"....
My murdered daughter had
normal, and healthy
pregnancies, and I will compare
records with pathological mine.

GLOBAL
FRAUD-SHAKEE
L AHMED IBNE
MAHMOOD
DIRECT LINK

WHEN HOSPITAL MURDERS YOUR CHILD.....

during the triage (ER) and OB/GYN admittance, and not a patient herself [sic], with the estimated PLAN OF THE
DISCHARGE on the record, and with assistance of the father , and the mother long distance, Maine-Louisiana
via telephone, during their daughter being admitted to the hospital, but....

INSTEAD...

Butchers your baby like Jack the Ripper, before and after in the “one-day-hospital-stay”,

disregards the local contact with the father, who had brought his daughter to the hospital, AND is listed as the
person, who would be “driving back home” his daughter from the hospital, but whose phone number
mysteriously disappeared from the records, despite “driving home”, or shall I state, conveniently ...

with the safety zone however of the mother’s Maine records intact, but who “could not been able to reach”
until they actually called the family in Maine for the arrangements ( ! ), while the family had not known
about THE DEATH - satellite caller I.D. “only” identifies that “successfully” placed call...

prevents mother of flying to her daughter in the emergency, which not only had not been recognized, but
caused and ignored, e.g. nurse’s entries just prior to the leaving my daughter for death,

does not allow the father to see the daughter on the very day of her murder, and the “physician” responsible
for the murder ( Lorissa Autery ) “communicates” with the father via telephone, while both were present at
the same time on the premises of the hospital !

performing the slaughter of the illegal autopsy ( unexplained death, coroner's medico-legal case) , and in
the presence of the very medical staff who had failed to resuscitate healthy, young patient, but intubated for
LOPA

“Patient’s Advocates” advocating for the hospital, which performed/caused the murder; does not talk
without the battery of their advocates, terminates any whatsoever contact with the family ( telephone, postal,
physical )

when using basic psychology to find out the condition of my daughter during the one day in the hospital,
and the very last of her life, I demand information about her “diet”, but “Patient’s Advocates” supply us with
the “general hospital menu” for that day, stating that my daughter “was on unrestricted diet”, while unable to
inform, or have any nursing records if my daughter, their patient, actually consumed anything , to which we
knew the answer, what was the reason for our inquiry...

The butchers delay the Death Certificates for months to delay, delay, delay....
while the slicing and dicing was performed the next day after the murder , and BEFORE the family arrived in
New Orleans, they “waited for the lab results” and for the father to leave...

WHEN YOUR CHILD IS MURDERED IN THE HOSPITAL AND YOU WANT
TO SEEK THE TRUTH....

and file the complaint to the independent, unbiased, medical STATE-
LOUISIANA MEDICAL PANEL REVIEW

unless you have medical and law degrees, the murderers’ law firm will dare to contact you for
discovery of the findings of your medical experts for the murderers defense
!!! The discoveries are buried at BRANCH MILLS CEMETERY IN MAINE TO
BE EXHUMED !!!

THIS REALLY SHOULD BE DA’s CASE, but with the Attorney General Fotti losing the Katrina
murders case....
The New Orleans' tourists never get to know - poker, horses, and corpses....

      NAME
                                   Michal Flisiuk calling
  Compliance Dept. of Louisiana State Board of Nursing
                                        Sept.23, 2008

MF – What’s your name M'mam?
CC – Crystal Coulton…
MF – You are working in this Department ?
CC – Yes I am with compliance…
MF – About a half a year ago I filed complaint about a nurse I didn't even know a name of. I never heard from
you. I made several calls, sent mail and e-mails …that person must stop being a nurse…., and no response.
My name is Michal Flisiuk and it is about Blanka Peridot , and how she was treated before she died, what
the nurse wrote – Patient screams at intervals for no reason. For half a year… I’m going to a newspaper in
Baton Rogue with this…. I wonder what a status of that complaint is, could you check it?
CC – Yes, what’s her name?
MF - I would not know, because I couldn't get it from the hospital, or your Department. I got a copy of
medical records, but one could read her name… I have complaint going for half a year… My daughter died
misdiagnosed,overdosed, surgically injured, ebondoned, and she wrote…
CC – What’s her name?
MF – My daughter's name is Blanka Peridot.
CC – I can’t do really much without nurse’s name.
MF – Are you trying to tell me that it didn't even start to be investigated?
CC – What I am saying is, I can’t tell a status if I don’t have nurse’s name.
MF –When I filled the complaint I couldn't know her name. I know it now, but not from you , , and I am not
going to tell you, and I wonder in what stage your investigation is?
CC – What I am saying we have investigations’ files but no nurse's names. I need her name….
MF – Listen, this is nonsense what are you telling me. I filed complaint without knowing the nurse’s name.
CC – If I don’t have nurse’s name I cannot find it.
MF - (screaming) I told you I did not have her name when I filed complaint…
CC – Well, I don’t have nurse’s name either.
MF – So there is no complaint, right?
CC – I can’t tell you…
MF – You can’t look it up?
CC - I need nurse’s name.
MF – What about my daughter’s name?
CC – I need nurse’s name.
MF – This bureaucratic nonsense … I can assure you it is not going to stop here …
CC - I need nurse’s…
MF – (screaming) I told you… Give me your supervisor…
          Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
JP – This is Joy Pederson , supervisor, your daughter was in Charity Hospital , right?
MF – No, in University Hospital …
JP - Yes sir, we have this case and we are looking at the records from the hospital. I sent you a letter…
MF – I didn't get anything.
JP – We just got the records and we are looking at them.
MF – You’ve got to be kidding…. I filed complaint half a year ago … Baton Rogue is few miles from New
Orleans …
JP – It’s being investigated.
MF – You're not doing any service to the public by holding up this investigation. That person…
JP – I understand, we have to look at it.
MF – You are trying to tell me that for a half a year you didn't’t look at it.
JP – We didn't have the name…
MF – You could have the name in a couple of hours.
JP – Yes sir, we are looking at it. It took us a while to get the records but we did get them
MF – This is ridiculous
JP – Remember, I sent you a letter…
MF – I didn't get any…
JP – It’s still under investigation. I will send you a letter when it’s finished.
MF – I wonder what you going to come up with, and congratulations for a speedy action, the shorter that
monster is around people the better.
JP – OK sir, we’ll send you a letter

Please intervene , I sent on March 16 certified letters/ emails with details
about nurse that by any means should be not one. I did not get any
confirmation or response from Compliance office. I send below copy of
written part of above mentioned complaint which was send with excerpts
from medical records

Michal Flisiuk
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:33:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: "michal flisiuk" <michalflisiuk@yahoo.com> View Contact Details
Add Mobile Alert
To: complaints@lsbn.state.la.us

Michal Flisiuk
1575 Rt.3 South China
Me, 04358
207 993 3024

to: Department of Complains and Investigations
of Louisiana State Board of Nursing.

Our daughter Blanka Peridot died at 6:29 am,on June 25, 2007 in University
Hospital in New Orleans. Night shift nurse of Postpartum OB/ GYN ward was
in charge of Blanka til shortly before her death, she was transferred to ICU
ward. A name of the nurse cannot be read from pages of medical records -
the signature is not intelligible. The hospital stonewall our efforts to obtain
the name, stating policies and sending us back to medical records, where as I
described only graphologist would have a chance for satisfactory spelling. I
ask the board to obtain that name. The nurse in question is guilty of total
decline of moral and human impulses which she readily expressed in her own
words at at midnight - "No changes noted. Patient continues to scream at
intervals for no reason. Will continue to monitor"
There is a whole lot that can be read from this note - without any question of
such person, who wrote such an outrageous callous note; has no place to be
in nursing profession, the person is not capable to perform that job, interact
with patients, alarm physicians - not to mention all higher goals, like
compassion, comfort etc. I ask the Board to investigate the matter and
revoke the license of "the person". I make the Board responsible to protect
general public from such a dangerous moral dwarf on the base of extremely
unprofessional conduct and moral turpitude. I am sending this
correspondence via email, certified letter is on the way.

Sincerely,
Michal Flisiuk

LOPA AND WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW

"Delivery of a macerated infant is
obsolute evidence of an intrauterine
death.If a fetus dies in utero,it is
suspended in sterile fluid within an
intact amniotic sac.There it
undergoes aseptic autolytic
changes-maceration.These changes
result from the infant's tissue and
cellular enzymes aided by the
favorable body temperature.The
earliest sign of maceration in a
stillborn is skin slippage.This may
be present as early as 6 h after
death in utero and is EXPECTED if
the child has been dead in utero
more than 12 h".

beatrice
okechukwu

beatrice
okechukwu

"University hospitals are relatively more
pathogenic, or, in blunt language, more
sickening. It has also been established
that one of every five patients admitted
to a typical research hospital acquires an
iatrogenic disease, sometimes trivial,
usually requiring special treatment, and in
one case in thirty leading to death. Half
of these episodes result from
complications of drug therapy: amazingly,
one in ten come from diagnostic
procedures".

" To protect us against doctors there is no
law against ignorance, no example of
capital punishment.Doctors learn at our
risk, they experiment and kill with
sovereign impunity, in fact the doctor is
the only one who may kill.They go further
and make the patient responsible: they
blame him who has succumbed" Plenius
Secundus"Doctor - inflicted pain and
infirmity have always been a part of
medical practice. Professional
callousness, negligence, and sheer
incompetence are age-old forms of
malpractice".

DEVIL WALKING
NEXT TO YOU

Maternal Mortality
Rate In U.S. Highest In
Decades, Experts Say

In addition, the report
says the increase in
maternal deaths "largely
reflects" more states' use
of a separate item on the
death certificate
indicating pregnancy
status of the woman.
According to the report,
the number of maternal
deaths does not include
all deaths of pregnant
women, but only those
deaths reported on the
death certificate that
were assigned to causes
related to or aggravated
by pregnancy or
pregnancy management

studies have shown
that at least 40% of
maternal deaths could
have been prevented
with improved quality of
care.

Published on Sunday, October 14,
2007 by Inter Press Service
Maternal Mortality
Shames Superpower US
by Haider Rizvi

United Nations - Despite its
enormous wealth and highly
advanced technology, the United
States lags far behind other
industrialised countries -- and even
some developing ones -- in
providing adequate health care to
women during pregnancy and
childbirth.

The U.S. ranks 41st in a new
analysis of maternal mortality rates
in 171 countries released by a group
of U.N. public health experts on
Friday. The survey shows that even
a developing country like South
Korea is ahead of the United States.

"Women are unnecessarily dying
from pregnancy and childbirth
complications because the U.S. is
moving in a wrong direction," said
Beneva Schulte of Women Deliver,
a Washington-based group
campaigning for women's
reproductive rights and access to
public health care.

Based on 2005 estimates, the U.N.
analysis suggests that one in 4,800
women in the United States carry a
lifetime risk of death from
pregnancy. By contrast, among the
10 top-ranked industrialised
countries, fewer than one in 16,400
are facing a similar situation.

The reason? According to experts,
in many European countries and
Japan in the industrialised world,
women are guaranteed good-quality
health and family planning services
that minimise their lifetime risk.

Many independent experts and
sympathetic legislators hold the
current U.S. public health policy
responsible for its dismal record
because some 47 million U.S.
citizens have no access to health
insurance, most of them African
Americans and other minorities.

"We must ensure that pregnant
women are covered,"
Congresswoman Lois Capps, a
California Democrat, told IPS. "Even
if we have the best technology, not
everyone has the access to health
care."

Capps also said the scope of the
problem could be even worse than
it appeared. "We have to improve
our data collection," she said. "I
don't think we have all the data."

U.N. experts who prepared the
analysis said they developed a new
approach to estimating maternal
mortality that seeks both to
generate estimates for countries
with no data and to correct
available data for underreporting
and misclassification.

They hold that inconsistency in data
on deaths and on classification of
those deaths creates broad
uncertainties in many places, even
in developed countries. But all
estimates almost certainly
understate the problem.

Responding to inquiries by IPS, a
U.S. public health official identified
"racial disparity" as the most
significant factor underlying the
high U.S. maternal mortality rate.
"Black women are four times more
vulnerable than whites," Eve
Lackritz, chief of the Maternal and
Infant Health branch of the Centres
for Disease Control (CDC), told IPS.

In Lackritz's view, obesity and
hypertension are two leading
causes of pregnancy-related risks in
the United States. "We have to be
more responsive," she said. "This is
one of our big problems."

The U.S. situation within the
industrialised world aside, the other
end of the spectrum shows there
are 10 countries -- all of them in
Africa except for Afghanistan --
where high fertility and shattered
health care systems are causing
extreme risks for pregnant women.

According to researchers, in
countries like Somalia, Mali, Chad,
and Niger, on average more than
one in every 15 women is likely to
die of pregnancy-related causes. In
Niger, the estimate suggests that
one out seven women is vulnerable
to death during pregnancy.

Their analysis comes at a time
when many development activists
and U.N. officials are trying to
evaluate how far the world has
progressed in meeting the
Millennium Development Goals
agreed upon by the world leaders
some seven years ago.

When the world leaders attended a
summit in New York in September
2000, they agreed that the MDGs
must be achieved by 2015. That
commitment included policy
initiatives to reduce maternal
mortality by 75 percent.

Many experts believe

A parous woman, who had intermittent
episodes of vaginal bleeding from 14 weeks'
gestation, was admitted to hospital at 26
weeks in spontaneous labour with an
intrauterine death. She had a breech
delivery and the placenta was said to be
offensive. Twenty-four hours after delivery
she developed jaundice, shock and DIC, was
transferred to ICU and in spite of
resuscitative measures had a cardiac arrest
and died 13 hours later. At autopsy the
appearances in the uterus were typical of
clostridrial septicaemia and necrosis and
this diagnosis was confirmed by
microbiology.

The medical notes in this case provided no
information about the observations which
were made in the 24 hours after delivery.
Furthermore, antibiotics were
not prescribed prior to her
transfer to ICU in spite of
clinical evidence of intrauterine
infection at the time of
delivery. There was therefore
substandard care in this case.
(case study)

United Nations - Despite its enormous
wealth and highly advanced technology, the
United States lags far behind other
industrialised countries -- and even some
developing ones -- in providing adequate
health care to women during pregnancy and
childbirth.
The U.S. ranks 41st in a new analysis of
maternal mortality rates in 171 countries
released by a group of U.N. public health
experts on Friday. The survey shows that
even a developing country like South Korea
is ahead of the United States.

Does inducing labor raise the risk of amniotic fluid
embolism?
Kramer MS, Rouleau J, Baskett TF, Joseph KS, for
the Maternal Health Study Group of the Canadian
Perinatal Surveillance System. Amniotic fluid
embolism and medical induction of labour: a
retrospective, population-based cohort study.
Lancet. 2006;368:1444–1448.

Fast Track

Medical induction of labor is strongly associated with
fatal amniotic fluid embolism
Extra caution is justified in choosing elective
induction because of its link to AFE
Marie R. Baldisseri, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Critical Care
Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center,
Pittsburgh, Pa
A
Yes. In this retrospective, population-based study
involving more than 3 million hospital deliveries in
Canada over 12 years, medical induction of labor was
strongly associated with fatal amniotic fluid embolism
(AFE) and a near doubling of the risk of overall AFE.
Maternal age (≥35), grand multiparity, cesarean and
instrumental vaginal delivery, polyhydramnios,
cervical laceration or uterine rupture, placenta
previa or abruption, eclampsia, and fetal distress
were also associated with an increased risk of AFE.

Fast Track
Medical induction of
labor is strongly
associated with fatal
amniotic fluid
embolism
Extra caution is
justified in choosing
elective induction
because of its link to
AFE

Postpartum haemorrhage
This is the most important single
cause of maternal death in the world; it
is estimated to claim 150 000 maternal
lives annually, mainly in developing
countries (WHO 1990, Kwast 1991, Li et
al 1996). The majority of these deaths
(88%) occur within 4 hours of delivery
(Kane et al 1992), indicating that they
are a consequence of events in the
third stage of labour. Postpartum
haemorrhage is a complication which
occurs at the transition between
labour and the postpartum period. The
predisposing factors, of which
anaemia, given its prevalence in
developing countries, has to be one of
the most significant, are discussed in
previous WHO reports (WHO 1990,
1996a). The causes of haemorrhage are
uterine atony and retained placenta in
the majority of cases; vaginal or
cervical lacerations and (occasionally)
uterine rupture or inversion also play a
role (Kwast 1991). The management of
the third stage of labour in the
prevention of postpartum
haemorrhage has been discussed
comprehensively in the WHO report on
care in normal birth (WHO 1996a).

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WANTED "Dr," BRADLEY
KIEFFER.
Last employed by LSU in
New Orleans where he
committed MURDER.
See below

beatrice
okechukwu

Bradley KIEFFER had decided NOT
to transport the patient without vital
signs as well as NOT to intubate at
OB/GYN deciding instead to wait as he
himself had written "to wait 20+
minutes for the bed at ICU !
Your life potentially can be at risk if
you are a patient of "Dr." BRADLEY
KIEFFER !!!

BRADLEY KIEFFER WHO
CAUSED "UNEXPLAINED
DEATH" of the young,
healthy woman in one day
"hospital stay". With
Lorissia Autery, nursing
staff from HELL, their
SUPERIORS - he is guilty of
murder of BLANKA
TERESA FLISIUK PERIDOT!