Archive for August 29th, 2011
Correctional Nursing Alert: Ectopic Pregnancy
A young woman in custody at a large urban jail has continuing abdominal pain over a 14 hour period. She is found unresponsive in her cell and rushed to the hospital where she is pronounced dead on arrival. Autopsy reveals a ruptured ectopic pregnancy. Was this death avoidable? Ectopic pregnancy, where a fertilized ovum implants [...]
