Maternal-Fetal Medicine doc in Rochester, NY- tweets on high risk care for complex pregnancy. tweets are my own, not medical advice, retweet not endorsement.
That’s a wrap! #teamzebra done for the year! Don’t forget to wear your stripes on 2/29 the rarest day of the year and official #RareDiseaseDay@MySMFM#smfm24 No one does “unroutine” better than #mfm
Absolutely love this. Stop freaking patients out. Topical. Retinoids. Do. Not. Cause. Fetal. Retinoid. Syndrome. Speaker told story where pharamacy refused to sell her otc skincream while visibly pregnant. As Mfm/teratologist 🙄🙄🤦🏻 #teamzebra#teratology@SarahObican@MySMFM
Physicians and patients think rates of #birthdefects from medications is 20%, but it is closer to 2% #teratology pregnant people should be reassured to use meds needed to manage diseases #mfms need to reassure pts, medical colleagues #teamzebra@MySMFM#smfm24@SarahObican
Always more to learn—- and as we learn more, it becoming clear that fetal diagnoses overlap and interplay genetically in ways we are continually learning from! #teamzebra . Also @ChrisHanMFM is the best speaker. Invite her. @UCLAHealth@MySMFM#smfm24
#rsv vaccine season ended 1/31 —but will be back! Pregnancy vaccination is CRITICAL to keeping little people out of hospital. #rsv is number ONE hospitalization reason for infants — and a major cause of mortality for preemies! #teamzebra@MySMFM@airisyc
#Covid is forgotten but not gone and remains a significant cause of pregnancy mortality. Placental passage provides infant immunity too! Also— turns out only people the love #acronyms and #abbrevs more than obs are virologists!! #teamzebra#smfm24@MySMFM@BethisraelD@airisyc
#shocked /not shocked that “female” #crashtestdummies are just scaled down male dummies w/ no discussion of differences in muscular, ligamental, body composition or pregnancy, so #afab people and pregnant people are more likely to die in #mva than #amab@MySMFM#smfm24#teamzebra
Turns out it’s not just holding up a golf club in the rain— lightning can move sideways, jump, and have a blast radius— and can hurt you all sorts of ways — from burns, to blasting your clothes off #teamzebra and unusual #trauma events in pregnancy #hollenbach@MySMFM#smfm2024