[Leica] Flash Delivery

[Buzz Hausner <Buzz@marianmanor.org>]

I checked with my wife, who is an obstetrician, and Beth says that flash is
okay with her and that there is no policy against it in her big city
teaching hospital.  However, as the wife of a photographer, nothing to do
with camera gear phases her.  Of course, one should probably ask advanced
permission of all present before using flash during critical moments in the
delivery.  My personal take is that it might not be a good idea in general
to use flash during the action phase of delivering a baby.  In the rare
cases when something goes wrong, you don't want to do anything to distract
the obstetrician who is trying to stem a major hemorrhage or the
pediatricians trying to revive a neo-nate with zero-zero Apgar scores.
Also, I cannot speak to the effects that flash might have on the
under-developed eyes of the baby...maybe none, but perhaps there is a
neo-natologist on-list who can speak to this matter.


	Buzz Hausner

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From: Joe Codispoti [mailto:joecodi@thegrid.net]
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 1:52 AM
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Subject: Re: [Leica] it DOESN'T work well for leica!


Ken,
I know that this subject has been beaten to death, but in all the posts I
have seen no reference to flash being allowed or disallowed in matermity
areas of hospitals.
Can you or others shed some light? Oops wrong choice of words perhaps.
Joe