The word
"obstetric" refers to anything related to the care and treatment of pregnant women, childbirth, and the period immediately after giving birth. It commonly refers to the medical specialty focused on delivering babies and ensuring the well-being of both mother and child during pregnancy and labor.
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To put these figures in context, this amount of health care spending represents one third of the total cost of
obstetric care for preeclampsia pregnancies in the U.S. Much of the cost for infants was determined by gestational age, ranging from $ 282,570 at less than 28 weeks to as little as $ 6,013 at 37 or more weeks.
... [T] here was a significant excess of the primary outcome in births planned at home compared with those planned in
obstetric units in the restricted group of women without complicating conditions at the start of care in labour.
As many have incorrectly used fetal distress and birth asphyxia as interchangeable terms, the Committee on
Obstetric Practice of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has expressed concern regarding the use of the two terms.
Direct Relief's interventions include expanding access to safe deliveries by training and equipping traditional birth attendants and midwives, addressing complications in birth with
emergency obstetric care, and enrolling mothers into the Prevention of Maternal - to - Child Transmission of HIV program.
FRIDAY, Jan. 27, 2017 (HealthDay News)-- Excessive weight gain during pregnancy has long been tied to a higher risk
for obstetric complications.
This kind of birth presentation is usually associated with having your water broken prematurely, going into preterm labor, or other
obstetric interventions.
As a final stage of development, two authors (VS and CR) assessed usability and feasibility by using the ResQu Index in a systematic review on maternal and perinatal outcomes related to place of birth for women at low risk of
obstetric complications in high - income countries.
Impact of antidepressant treatment during pregnancy
on obstetric outcomes among women previously treated for depression: an observational cohort study.
Cheryl Beck wrote that, «Birth trauma lies in the eye of the beholder,» elaborating that what the mother perceives as a traumatic birth, may be seen as a routine delivery
by obstetric care providers (Beck, 2004).
The majority of maternity units in Ireland are yet to implement these recommendations into their policy and many women report admission trace and electronic foetal monitoring is routine everyday practice for all women in
obstetric led units.
Millions of women are affected by debilitating injury such
as obstetric fistula.
In the «Background» section at the start of the Practice Bulletin we see several points that seem to be denied in the general
obstetric community.
«This is the first study with detailed, frequent and long - term follow - up to assess associations of dyspareunia with
obstetric risk factors.
Future studies should focus on addressing existing research gaps such as
obstetric outcomes, complications, sexuality and therapeutic surgeries, state the authors.
Fact: In Dr. Toledo's study, published last year in the International Journal of
Obstetric Anesthesia, women expressed concern that an epidural could cause cerebral palsy or be harmful to the baby — no evidence or research corroborates these concerns.
Also, the appointment of Dr. Nasir Umar as the Medical Director of National
Obstetric Fistula Centre, Bauchi was renewed for four years with effect from April 8; while Dr. Iliasu Ahmed was appointed Medical Director of Federal Medical Centre, Owo, Ondo State for initial four years term with effect from April 8.
At this time, in the United States all Level III hospitals, those that have emergency
obstetric services available at all times and a neonatal special care nursery meet the current ACOG recommendations for VBAC.
Whyman has particular expertise in
obstetric claims, delay in diagnosis and treatment issues, and orthopaedic cases.
Doctoral thesis comparing safety and costs of natural out - of - hospital birth with in -
hospital obstetric births.
«Preparing and Presenting Your Witnesses,» American Conference Institute's 14th Annual Advanced Forum on
Obstetric Malpractice Claims (Distinguished Co-Chair), Philadelphia Union League, June 2015
The bill also requires insurers to
provide obstetric providers psychiatric tele - consults so they can manage patients who may need and desire medication for depression or anxiety.
The organization has developed a series of maternal safety toolkits aimed at responding to the leading causes of maternal morbidity and mortality including reducing complications
from obstetric hemorrhage, severe hypertension and early elective delivery.
Obstetric factors considered were mode of delivery, (emergency, elective caesarean, or vaginal delivery), admission to special or neonatal intensive care, and duration of maternal post-partum hospital stay (≤ 24 h, > 24 h).
«If I was forced to identify one factor above all others as the determinant of high maternal mortality in the USA,» Loudon wrote in Death in Childbirth, «I would unhesitatingly choose the standard of
obstetric training in the medical schools.»
In the subgroup analysis by parity, the odds of the primary outcome for nulliparous women was higher for planned home births than for
planned obstetric unit births (adjusted odds ratio 1.75, 1.07 to 2.86; table 3 ⇑).
Of course these centers have fewer complications and operative deliveries, because they accept only low - risk patients in whom normal delivery is expected and predicted after screening by
obstetric experts.
Would you be willing to give up inductions, epidurals or other standard
obstetric procedures if it meant a better chance for a vaginal birth?
A standardized, objective case assessment was developed to allow hospital clinical risk management teams to assess their own local cases of major
obstetric hemorrhage.
What word
includes obstetric care during birth that is not determined post-hoc by the ultimate mode of exit?
At Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, our neonatologists work closely with parents, the hospital's
obstetric team and specialized pediatric services.
Findings from the study will also be used to establish a
national obstetric anesthesia complication registry as part of the Anesthesia Incident Reporting System developed by ASA's Anesthesia Quality Institute (AQI) in collaboration with the leaders of SOAP.
Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities might just get us thinking, wondering, and perhaps even improving maternity care.»
Percentages are higher at university hospitals, added Kim, because they are more likely to have
obstetric anesthesiologists on staff 24/7.
Most
obstetric cases relate to labour ward practice, and 99 % of these relate to «failure to intervene» or «delay in intervention.»
The legislation requires medical facilities with obstetrical programs to implement comprehensive
obstetric patient safety programs similar to a program implemented in 2003 at New York - Presbyterian Hospital / Weill Cornell Medical Center.