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Meet Sally, a Tubal Reversal OR Nurse The team at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center wants you to feel comfortable during your time with us. Sally Muncy, RN, an operating room nurse at Chapel Hill Surgical Center, describes what to expect the day of your surgery, and how she plays a part in your tubal reversal care in her latest tubal reversal blog. From preoperatively to recovery, Sally is there for you.

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Dr. James Split, a board certified anesthesiologist, is the newest member of the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center staff. Although only 4 tubal reversal surgeries are performed each day at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center, there are 2 anesthesiologists and a nurse anesthetist on staff. The primary responsibility of the anesthesia department is to ensure patients’ safety during surgery and comfort during recovery. Many of Dr. Berger’s patients who are having their tubes untied will be speaking with Dr. Split as a part of their preoperative evaluation and will meet him on the day prior to or on the day of their tubal ligation reversals.

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The Washington Post has a lengthy article on the perils of childbirth in Iraq, “Iraq’s Woes Are Adding Major Risks To Childbirth.” The piece mentions the state of the healthcare system, road closures, curfews, and violence and doctor kidnapping as barriers to women receiving appropriate care during birth. As a result, it claims, women are resulting to skipping prenatal care, scheduling elective c-sections to avoid being caught out after curfew, and utilizing neighborhood midwives (although I’m not convinced that using midwives should be lumped in the same sentence as avoiding care, which the Post piece does). One obstetrician reports carrying a gun to work, having had the ultrasound machine stolen, and having received 3 death threats. Women also have difficulty arranging to go to the hopsital – “During curfew, ambulance drivers and even police officers sometimes charge women for rides to the hospital, or refuse to take their husbands out of fear that they are suicide bombers, doctors said.” Another obstetrician reports an observed rise in birth defects, which she attributes to women skipping prenatal care to avoid going out to see the doctors, ans says that she used to see one baby a week with congenital abnormalities but now sees 5 or 6.

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by Ben padnos

Microsurgical Vasectomy Reversal demands the highest degree of skill and experience to be successful. Expert micro-surgeons, Drs. Marks and Burrows of the International Center for Vasectomy Reversal, achieved the highest success rates using the formal multi-layer technique 10-0 or 11-0 sutures in a fully accredited, specially designed and dedicated operating suite.

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by Ben padnos

Microsurgical Vasectomy Reversal demands the highest degree of skill and experience to be successful. Expert micro-surgeons, Drs. Marks and Burrows of the International Center for Vasectomy Reversal, achieved the highest success rates using the formal multi-layer technique 10-0 or 11-0 sutures in a fully accredited, specially designed and dedicated operating suite.

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by BenPadnos

Vasectomy Reversal Surgery calls for a high degree of expertise and experience to be really effective. Drs. Marks and Burrows of the International Center for Vasectomy Reversal achieve the highest success rates using the formal multi-layer technique using 10-0 or 11-0 suture in their fully accredited microsurgical operating suite.

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