During labor, misoprostol is typically kept at the patient’s bedside, she said. Under the new state law, the medication must be stored in a locked cabinet, potentially on a different floor of the hospital, and will require a nurse to order the drug, enter a code and retrieve it, she said.
“Even if that adds a few minutes — which it will — in the setting of a life-threatening hemorrhage, minutes are really important,” Avegno said. “We already have a maternal health crisis in Louisiana, as we do in the rest of America. This will not make it better.”
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