Patient case #3 – Look beyond Stan (chorioamnionitis)
Stan is a very good test for hypoxia – NOT infection/inflammation.
Patient background
- 35 years of age, BMI 24
- Primiparous
- Anxiety – citalopram 10 mg OD
- Uncomplicated pregnancy
- 12 and 20 weeks scans – normal
- 41w+5 – contracting 2:10, cervix effaced, 2 cm dilated