Delivery Note
The standard delivery note. Fill in every parenthesis.
Template
On (delivery date, time) this (age, race) female under (epidural, pudendal, local, no) anesthesia delivered a viable (male, female) infant weighing (weight) with APGAR scores of (0 to 10) and (0 to 10) at 1 and 5 minutes. Delivery was via (SVD, LTCS, classical CS) to a sterile field. (Nuchal cord reduced.) Infant was (bulb, DeLee) suctioned at (perineum, delivery). Cord clamped and cut and infant handed to waiting (pediatrician, nurse). (Cord blood sent for analysis.) (Weight) (intact, fragmented, meconium stained) placenta with (2, 3) vessel cord delivered (spontaneously, with manual extraction) at (time). (Amount) of (IV oxytocin, IM methylergonovine) given. (Uterus, cervix, vagina, rectum) explored and (midline episiotomy, nth degree laceration, uterus and abdominal incision) repaired in a normal fashion with (type) suture. EBL (amount). Patient taken to the recovery room in stable condition. Infant taken to the newborn nursery in stable condition. Dr. (name) attending.
Every blank in that template is something you will not remember accurately in four hours. Fill it in before you leave the room.
