A Post-donation Survey to Assess the Appropriateness of Medical Supply Donations to Freetown, Sierra Leone Following the Ebola Crisis.

The Recovery of Equipment for Capacity building OVERseas (RECOVER) initiative at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School involves collection and donation of clean and unused medical supplies that would otherwise be discarded to those desperately in need of those supplies abroad. RECOVER has recently responded to the aftermath of the Ebola crisis and the even more recent mudslide natural disaster in Freetown, Sierra Leone, which had resulted in a considerable diminishing of the local medical supplies. The goal of this study was to assess the match between donated supplies and local needs by using a post-donation survey.

How the cervix shortens: an anatomic study using 3-dimensional transperineal sonography and image registration in singletons and twins.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to use a fixed reference to study movement (displacement) of the cervical internal os from the second to the third trimester in singletons and twins. The rationale was to gain insight into anatomic changes associated with cervical shortening.

Methods: For each patient, 2 transperineal scans were performed 12 weeks apart (20 and 32 weeks).

Cervical length screening in patients who have undergone loop electrosurgical excision procedure.

Objective: To determine whether cervical length measurements in patients who have undergone a loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP) is a predictor of spontaneous preterm delivery (PTD) at < 35 weeks.

Study Design: A retrospective chart review of 97 pregnant patients with a history of prior LEEP undergoing cervical length screening by transvaginal ultrasound (TVUS) was done. Of these, 87 were included in the study.

Cervical lacerations: some surprising facts.

Objective: Our aim was to calculate the incidence of cervical lacerations after vaginal delivery and to study its associated risk factors.

Study Design: A retrospective chart review of all patients with a cervical laceration after vaginal delivery during a 5 year period was performed. Their risk factors were studied.

Emergent fetal intracardiac transfusion for thrombocytopenia and acute hypovolemia due to cordocentesis-associated hemorrhage in parvovirus-induced hydrops.

Objectives: To demonstrate the utility of fetal intracardiac transfusion to correct acute fetal hypovolemia and thrombocytopenia in fetal Parvovirus infection.

Methods: Intracardiac transfusion in a 19-week gestation was indicated due to cordocentesis-associated hemorrhage.

Results: Intracardiac transfusion resulted in correction of acute bradycardia, anemia and thrombocytopenia and persistent umbilical cord hemorrhage following attempted intravascular transfusion.