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Practice Guidelines for Obstetric Anesthesia

1 February 2016 P RACTICE guidelines are systematically developed recommendations that assist the practitioner and patient in making decisions about health care. These recommendations may be adopted, modified, or rejected according to the clinical needs and constraints and are not intended to replace local institutional policies. In addition, practice guidelines developed by the American Societ...

Practice Guidelines for Obstetric Anesthesia

The pain of childbirth is one of the most severe types of pain a woman will endure in her lifetime. Conflicting ideas about pain relief from childbirth pain were rooted in the bible and continued throughout the middle ages and Renaissance. “In Sorrow thou shalt bring forth children” (Genesis 3:16). Fifteenth century midwives were burned at the stake for offering pain relief during labor. The mo...

A Manual of Obstetric Practice

a practical acquaintance with this subject could gain an; assistance from figures of so sketchy a nature. The treating of eclampsia is a subject which the author has made peculiar > his own: his practice is to deliver immediately, or as soona possible if eclampsia has already set in, and to do this un deep anaesthesia. In cases of post-partum hemorrhage W* atony the author recommends the pluggi...

Obstetric audit in general practice.

Many recent papers have tried to show how inadvisable it is for general practitioners to undertake obstetric care and more especially obstetric deliveries.1-3 The high proportion of artificially induced labours, the enthusiasm for the increasing "mechanisation" of labour, descriptions of unexpected and sinister disease that the inexperienced obstetrician would not detect have all made general p...

Obstetric Therapeutics; Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics in Obstetric Practice