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    Wilson, Fiona (TIPCU)
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    Hello all.
    Do any of you have any policies/procedures regarding the situation were a post partum woman requests that they take home their placenta?

    I cannot find reference to this in either the Australian or HICPAC IC Guidelines and I recall that this issue has been raised on the list in the past.
    If anyone can assist, I would be most grateful.

    Regards

    Fiona Wilson I CNC, Infection Control, TIPCU
    Population Health I Department of Health and Human Services
    Post GPO Box 125 Hobart Tas 7001 | Email tipcu@dhhs.tas.gov.au
    Phone (03) 6222 7684 | Fax (03) 6233 0553
    A fair and healthy Tasmania

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    Richard Bartolo
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    Hi Fiona,
    Although uncommon I have encountered this practice which exists in some cultures. The placenta was given in a sealed and labeled specimen bucket, the ones used by pathology. Some women requested the Lotus birth, were the placenta is left un-severed and allowed to undergo its own physiological, organic clamping process. Similarly the placenta was placed in a bucket and goes home with the baby.

    Good luck

    Richard Bartolo
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    From: ACIPC Infexion Connexion [mailto:AICALIST@AICALIST.ORG.AU] On Behalf Of Wilson, Fiona L (TIPCU) (DHHS)
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    Subject: [ACIPC_Infexion_Connexion] Policy re placenta.

    Hello all.
    Do any of you have any policies/procedures regarding the situation were a post partum woman requests that they take home their placenta?

    I cannot find reference to this in either the Australian or HICPAC IC Guidelines and I recall that this issue has been raised on the list in the past.
    If anyone can assist, I would be most grateful.

    Regards

    Fiona Wilson I CNC, Infection Control, TIPCU
    Population Health I Department of Health and Human Services
    Post GPO Box 125 Hobart Tas 7001 | Email tipcu@dhhs.tas.gov.au
    Phone (03) 6222 7684 | Fax (03) 6233 0553
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    Hi Fiona

    The WA Release of human Tissue Policy may be of assistance:

    http://www.health.wa.gov.au/circularsnew/circular.cfm?Circ_ID12907

    Kind Regards

    Rebecca

    Rebecca McCann Program Manager
    Healthcare Associated Infection Unit (HAIU)
    Communicable Disease Control Directorate Department of Health
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    Hello all.

    Do any of you have any policies/procedures regarding the situation were a post partum woman requests that they take home their placenta?

    I cannot find reference to this in either the Australian or HICPAC IC Guidelines and I recall that this issue has been raised on the list in the past.

    If anyone can assist, I would be most grateful.

    Regards

    Fiona Wilson I CNC, Infection Control, TIPCU

    Population Health I Department of Health and Human Services

    Post GPO Box 125 Hobart Tas 7001 | Email tipcu@dhhs.tas.gov.au

    Phone (03) 6222 7684 | Fax (03) 6233 0553

    A fair and healthy Tasmania

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