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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788282203321

Titolo

Protocols for high-risk pregnancies : an evidence-based approach / / edited by John T. Queenan, Catherine Y. Spong, Charles J. Lockwood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-119-00123-4

1-119-00125-0

Edizione

[Sixth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (509 p.)

Disciplina

618.3

Soggetti

Pregnancy - Complications

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Sommario/riassunto

High-risk pregnancies present life-threatening challenges to two of your patients: the mother and her fetus. The direct, exemplary guidance in Protocols for High-Risk Pregnancy enables you to  better understand your patients' conditions devise optimum management strategies maximize the outcome and minimize the complications for both the mother and her fetus   To enhance clinical relevance, each protocol is written as if the patient were present. Evidence to support an intervention is given where it exists. The authors' experience provides additional wise counsel. Key references provide the springboard for a deeper understanding of a topic. In this more compact and fully updated sixth edition, new protocols include   Amniotic fluid disorders Depression Fetal growth restriction HIV Indicated late preterm and early term birth Malaria Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis   Designed for clinical practice by the leaders of two generations of maternal-fetal medicine, no obstetrician or obstetric health care provider can afford to miss Protocols for High-Risk Pregnancy.