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VIDEO: When to turn to surgery in postpartum uterine infection
Dr. David Eschenbach explains when to abandon antibiotics and head to the OR in cases of postpartum infection.
PARK CITY, UTAH – , and it’s easy to misdiagnose at first.
There’s no pus, and the skin can look mostly normal with just a little swelling. The tipoff is pain that seems out of proportion to the clinical signs.
David Eschenbach, MD, chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Washington, Seattle, knows the infection well. In an interview at the annual scientific meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology, he shared his insights on how physicians can recognize and treat postpartum necrotizing fasciitis in time to limit the damage.