Entries by Daphne Hanson

Healthcare interactions

Discuss the impact that racial and cultural diversity of individuals has on the U.S. healthcare system. 8. List three healthcare interactions you have experienced with another person from a culture or ethnicity different from your own. Were they positive or negative? What could or should have been done differently?

The prevention of preterm delivery.

A 29-year-old woman, G1P1, was referred to a private hospital because of vaginal bleeding after cervical cerclage. She had previously delivered vaginally her first female infant (3,536 g) after cervical cerclage under the diagnosis of cervical incompetency. In the pregnancy discussed here, cervical cerclage was performed at 15 weeks gestation for the prevention of preterm […]