{"id":7889,"date":"2024-06-15T09:02:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T09:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=7889"},"modified":"2024-06-15T09:23:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T09:23:33","slug":"medical-experts-alarmed-by-out-of-hospital-cesareans-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=7889","title":{"rendered":"Medical Experts Alarmed by Out-of-Hospital Cesareans in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new state law will permit surgeons to perform cesarean deliveries in \u201cadvanced birth centers,\u201d despite the risk of complications.<\/p>\n

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A new law in Florida allowing doctors to perform cesarean sections in outpatient birthing centers has raised serious safety concerns among medical experts, who say the procedures carry a small but real risk of life-threatening complications and should not be undertaken outside hospitals.<\/p>\n

The proposed new facilities, to be called advanced birth centers, will not be able to rapidly mobilize extra staff, equipment and expertise should complications suddenly occur, as a hospital would, critics noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cA pregnant patient who is considered low risk in one moment can suddenly need lifesaving care in the next,\u201d said Dr. Cole Greves, the Florida district chairman for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdvanced birth centers, even with increased regulations, cannot guarantee the level of safety patients would receive within a hospital,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Florida\u2019s law, the first of its kind in the nation, comes as the United States grapples with a maternal mortality rate that far exceeds those of comparable high-income countries.<\/p>\n

Florida itself lags other states in maternal care, getting a D+<\/a> grade in a recent March of Dimes report because maternal outcomes for Black women are abysmal. The state has high rates of C-sections, and rates of preterm births and infant deaths are worse than the national average.<\/p>\n

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A new state law will permit surgeons to perform cesarean deliveries in \u201cadvanced birth centers,\u201d despite the risk of complications.A new law in Florida allowing doctors to perform cesarean sections in outpatient birthing centers has raised serious safety concerns among medical experts, who say the procedures carry a small but real risk of life-threatening complications and should not be undertaken outside hospitals.The proposed new facilities, to be called advanced birth centers, will not be able to rapidly mobilize extra staff, equipment and expertise should complications suddenly occur, as a hospital would, critics noted.\u201cA pregnant patient who is considered low risk in one moment can suddenly need lifesaving care in the next,\u201d said Dr. Cole Greves, the Florida district chairman for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.\u201cAdvanced birth centers, even with increased regulations, cannot guarantee the level of safety patients would receive within a hospital,\u201d he said.Florida\u2019s law, the first of its kind in the nation, comes as the United States grapples with a maternal mortality rate that far exceeds those of comparable high-income countries.Florida itself lags other states in maternal care, getting a D+ grade in a recent March of Dimes report because maternal outcomes for Black women are abysmal. The state has high rates of C-sections, and rates of preterm births and infant deaths are worse than the national average.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7891,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7892,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889\/revisions\/7892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}