Protocols for High–Risk Pregnancies: An Evidence–Based Approach

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.inciples and practice of this important topic.clinicians caring for patients with congenital heart disease.This practical, spiral–bound, go–to reference is designed to answer the most frequently–posed questions about bypass for CHD, the surgical treatment of which is often complicated, with some conditions seen only rarely in  practice. Perfusion for Congenital Heart Surgery is written and designed for regular use:–  Focuses on the latest devices and techniques and provides clear, matter–of–fact guidance on their roles and importance to CHD procedures–  Written by a seasoned perfusionist who is co–chief and educator at one of the world s leading children s hospitals–  The spiral binding allows the book to be laid flat for easy referral–  A Notes section, following the discussion of each CHD lesion, enables readers to add institution and/or surgeon–specific information for later referenceinteractive text is also an excellent supplemental handbook for students, junior medical staff and medical practitioners.        A companion website to this title is available at www.rchhandbook.org This new edition of the best–selling manual, The Royal Children s Hospital Melbourne Paediatric Handbook 9th Edition is a succinct and practical guide to managing common and serious disorders in childhood. Relevant to medical, nursing and allied health fields, this is both a useful source for revision and an essential guide to clinical management and rapid decision–making at the point of care. For this edition, the handbook has been restructured according to body systems and is now more closely aligned with the Royal Children s Hospital Clinical Practice Guidelines.  It also includes updated evidence–based information in all chapters, an additional genetics chapter, new renal and oncology chapters and fully updated drug doses. The Handbook includes: Clear illustrations, and plenty of accessible diagnostic and management algorithms A Paediatric Pharmacopoeia Step–by–step guidelines for paediatric procedures Emphasis on the modern, community–based approach to the management of children s problems A strong emphasis on practical management by the doctor at first contact With well–presented, summarized information that you can easily access during a consultation, this text is also an excellent supplemental handbook for students, junior medical staff and medical practitioners.  

List of Contributors ix Preface xiii Part I Concerns in Pregnancy 1 Tobacco, Alcohol, and the Environment 3Jorge E. Tolosa and George Saade 2 Ionizing Radiation 14Robert L. Brent 3 Depression 27Kimberly Yonkers Part II Antenatal Testing 4 Prenatal