A Pregnant Diagnosed Woman has no Baby after the Cesarean Operation

Written by docteam Monday, 05 April 2010 20:38

Nowadays, women who are not able to deliver baby in normal process is opted to perform another procedure which is a cesarean operation, it is one safe alternative to help mothers and the babies endure the birth process. However, one case showed that a diagnosed pregnant woman had proved to find no baby inside her abdomen after the cesarean section was conducted.

A cesarean section was conducted to a thought to be pregnant patient that is in fact to find out that the pregnancy was to be a false because doctors who performed the cesarean didn’t find baby that was supposed to be there. Later on, it is revealed that the patient was suffering from uncommon condition called Pseudocyesis. Pseudocyesis is a condition that signals women to be likely pregnant but they are not.

After the operation had been performed, the patient was afterward taken to a c-section after trying to induce labor for a period of two days, of course with the resident in charge agreed the hospital’s request. Later on it was shockingly found out that there was no history that patient had ever been pregnant due to this particular pregnancy and this situation has become a new concern in medical field.

Moreover, another shocking fact revealed that the doctors who were in charge to treat the woman during her pregnancy period had not thought about confirming pregnancy with the use of physical exam being completed of the abdomen. Also, a sonogram or a pregnancy test to confirm the diagnosis was not applied during the pregnancy. Therefore, when the operation had been performed neither the two doctors found fetus within the uterus once the abdomen had been opened. Finding an empty abdomen, the patient was immediately closed back up.

Finally, regarding this false diagnostic, the doctors were sent low-level disciplinary letters of concern after more than a year later.