Berghella's Obstetric Evidence Based Guidelines

List of Contributors

Abbreviations

Introduction

How to “Read” this Book

 1 Preconception Care

Mary Peeler and Omar M. Young

 2 Prenatal Care

Anna R Whelan and Laurie B Griffin

 3 Physiologic Change

Jason Baxter and Julia Burd

 4 Ultrasound

Alyssa Savelli and Alfred Abuhamad

 5 Prenatal Diagnosis and screening for Aneuploidy

Sarah Harris, Angie Jelin, and Neeta L. Vora

 6 Genetic Screening for Inherited Genetic Conditions

Whitney Bender and Lorraine Dugoff

 7 Group B Streptococcus

Stephanie Thomas

 8 Preparation before labor

Daniele Di Mascio

 9 First Stage Labor

Leen Al-Hafez

 10 Second Stage of Labor

Alexis C. Gimovsky

 11 Third Stage of Labor

Alyssa R. Hersh and Jorge E. Tolosa

 12 Intrapartum Fetal Monitoring

Nandini Raghuraman and Alison G. Cahill

 13 Analgesia and Anesthesia

Adnan Al-maaitah, Kajal Angras, Hunter Gomez Roberts, and Pankaj Jain

 14 Operative Vaginal Delivery

Adeeb Khalifeh

 15 Cesarean Delivery

A Dhanya Mackeen, Maranda V. Sullivan, and Victoria E. Boyd

 16 Trial of Labor after Cesarean

Alessandro Petrecca

 17 Early Pregnancy Loss

Kavita Vinekar, Beatrice A. Chen, and Aileen M Gariepy

 18 Recurrent Pregnancy Loss

Pierpaolo Nicoli and Stephanie T. Ros Saposnik

 19 Preterm Birth Prevention in Asymptomatic Individuals

Anju Suhag

 20 Preterm Labor

Rebecca Horgan

 21 Preterm prelabor rupture of Membranes

Anna Locatelli, Sara Consonni, and Annalisa Inversetti

 22 Prelabor Rupture of Membranes at or Near Term

 Teodora Kolarova and Kimberley Ma

 23 Management Of the Uncomplicated Term Pregnancy

Laurie Griffin and Anna Whelan

 24 Induction of Labor

Salman Ali Jan, Julie Gomez, and Corina N. Schoen

 25 Intraamniotic Infection and Inflammation (Triple I)

Anne Bocage, Adrien Chiem, and Elizabeth Liveright

 26 Meconium

Naima Ross and Justin S. Brandt

 27 Malpresentation and Malposition

Alexis C Gimovsky, Andrea Dall’Asta, Giovanni Morganelli, and Tullio Ghi

 28 Shoulder Dystocia

Julia Burd

 29 Postpartum Hemorrhage, Retained Placenta, And Uterine Inversion

Amy C Hermesch and Jorge E. Tolosa

 30 Placental disorders

Daniele Di Mascio and Francesco D’Antonio

 31 Placental Abruption

Nathanael N. Hoskins

 32 Postpartum Care

Sarah K. Dotters-Katz and Daniele Di Mascio

 33 The Neonate

Laura De Angelis and Luca Ramenghgi

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Biography

Vincenzo Berghella MD   Professor and Director, Maternal Fetal Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 A Dhanya Mackeen MD, MPH      Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Jersey Shore, PA, USA

 Alexis C Gimovsky MD   Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

 Corina N Schoen MD       Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, UMass Chan Medical School – Baystate and Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA, USA

 Federica Bellussi MD       Attending Obstetrician, Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment and Special Delivery Unit, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, USA

 Johanna Quist-Nelson MD            Associate Professor, Maternal Fetal Medicine, Medical Director, Maternal Fetal Medicine Raleigh, and Medical Director, Women's Heart and Heath Clinic, UNC School of Medicine, Raleigh, NC, USA