Maternal-fetal evidence based guidelines

✍ Scribed by edited by Vincenzo Berghella.

• Publisher: Informa Healthcare, CRC Press
• Year: 2012.
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 462
• Series: Series in maternal-fetal medicine.
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Maternal-Fetal Medicine Evidence-Based Guidelines reviews the evidence for best practice in maternal-fetal medicine. It presents the reader with the right information, in the right format, by summarizing evidence in easy-to-use tables and algorithms. Each guideline is designed to "make it easy to do it right", with appropriate use of proven interventions and no use of harmful interventions. Plenty of evidence is available so that well-informed clinicians can reduce errors, so that the first aim is ultimately to improve the health of mother and fetus by providing quality care"--Provided by publisher.  Read more...

Introduction; How to ''Read'' This Book; Contributors; List of Abbreviations; 1 Hypertensive disorders; 2 Cardiac disease; 3 Obesity; 4 Pregestational diabetes; 5 Gestational diabetes; 6 Hypothyroidism; 7 Hyperthyroidism; 8 Prolactinoma; 9 Nausea/vomiting of pregnancy and hyperemesis gravidarum; 10 Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy; 11 Inflammatory bowel disease; 12 Gallbladder disease; 13 Pregnancy after transplantation; 14 Maternal anemia; 15 Sickle cell disease; 16 von Willebrand disease; 17 Renal disease; 18 Headache; 19 Seizures; 20 Spinal cord injury; 21 Mood disorders