Mid-Term Case Assignment: A Non-Interval Tubal Ligation at a Catholic Hospital
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TJ, the patient, is a 35 year old woman who is four months pregnant with her fourth child. She will deliver at a catholic facility and will have a c-section with the same obstetrician, Dr. Jan, who delivered her three other children. In a previous pregnancy Mrs. J was hospitalized for pulmonary emboli when she presented to the ER with shortness of breath. Currently, Mrs. TJ is experiencing deep vein thrombosis as a result of her pregnancy. Even though Dr. Jan believes her current pregnancy will be successful, another pregnancy would jeopardize her health, her life, the life of the unborn child and her ability to support and raise her present children.
Due to repeated c-sections she now has extensive scar tissue that is invading her endometrial cavity In order to prevent added risk from two surgical procedures and double anesthesia Dr. Jan has suggested that she should get a tubal......
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