I have never seen GBS obs on a baby in PN period. The most common reasons for obs that I have encountered are Mec obs which you correctly state and PROM obs. Once you have completed your first year of training you might see more of these types of observation being carried out?

First year students will have heard of GBS but will not know a lot about it IMO In the first year we generally tend to focus on the normal aspects, not complications. You must have had a really busy first year to have had so much exposure to GBS already? I am now a second year, and we have just started to talk about it. From what i see this site is helping raise awareness of issues surrounding GBS, and not promoting a particular point of view at all. It is pointing you in the direction of resources, for which I am grateful as it is not an easy subject to grasp due to contradictory opions, guidelines, theories etc.

Babies die from GBS. So why not take a blanket approach, much the same as the WHO has done with the administation of vitamin K. If it saves a life surely it is worth it?

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