This is (supposed to be) a reflective diary by a (not very) anonymous biomedical scientist who works somewhere in the south of England.
One day this diary may well be submitted to the Health and Care Professions Council as evidence of ongoing continual professional development....
The HCPC
sent their update
today. There was quite a lot of note in this one, but I was particularly intrigued
by the prospect of becoming an HCPC
panel member…
Placenta
accreta is a particularly nasty condition in which the placenta gets too
attached to the uterus, and can even go through the uterine wall and get
involved in other tissues.
This can
cause massive blood loss at birth, and may well result in hysterectomy.
Amazingly
I’d not heard of this condition before today when I found out about it the hard
way…