Manual of High Risk Pregnancy & Delivery

With today's technological advances and the help of knowledgeable healthcare professionals, women have a better chance of having a positive outcome of even a high risk pregnancy and delivery than ever before. This book presents various problems in a concise format.

Topics will include: assessment of fetal well-being, pregnancy loss and perinatal grief, ethical decision making, legal issues and risk management, sexually transmitted infections, substance abuse, health disorders complicating pregnancy (diabetes, cardiac disease, renal disease, autoimmune disease) and complications in pregnancy (ectopic pregnancy, placental abnormalities, disseminated intravascular coagulation, hemolytic incompatibility, hypertensive disorders, preterm labor and multiple gestation, premature rupture of membranes and trauma). New features include: patient safety and risk management strategies, a chapter on Venous Thromboembolic Disease and standardized terminology and definitions.