Pre-Anaesthetic Assessment: It’s Role in Preventing Mortality

Preventing pre-eclampsia and its complications

Women at ‘low risk’ of pre-eclampsia are most commonly those from unselected obstetric populations and may be nulliparous or multiparous. (Please see Appendix 6.1 for details of individual randomised controlled trials or systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials that reported on the outcomes of pre-eclampsia, gestational hypertension, maternal morbidity, small-for-gestational-age (SGA)...

Midwives’ Professional Competency for Preventing Neonatal Mortality in Disasters

Background: Infants are the most vulnerable people with special needs in natural disasters. Since midwives are responsible for providing reproductive health services to infants in disastrous situations, assessing their professional competence is of great importance. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in Tehran, Iran. A total of 361 midwives were sele...

Pulmonary Function Test in Pre Anaesthetic Evaluation

Garlic for preventing pre-eclampsia and its complications.

BACKGROUND The suggestion that garlic may lower blood pressure, inhibit platelet aggregation, and reduce oxidative stress has led to the hypothesis that it may have a role in preventing pre-eclampsia and its complications. OBJECTIVES To assess the effects of garlic on prevention of pre-eclampsia and its complications. SEARCH STRATEGY We searched the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group T...

Anaesthetic contribution to maternal mortality.

The Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths in England and Wales are unique in British medicine in that they appraise systematically the results of medical work. The original enquiry was started in 1928, but was completely revised in 1952, since when there have been 10 reports covering a period of 30 years. Each maternal death is reviewed carefully to ascertain if additional or different ac...