Product Description: The investigations that can be performed in the antenatal period are many, varied and ever more complex. This guide mainly describes the tests themselves but also looks briefly at the history of antenatal investigations, the provision of such investigations and the importance of how women receive test results...read more

Product Description: Chapters include:- * The fetal growth including complicating factors and the subject of Ultrasound. * Diagnosis of fetal abnormality including AFP, Ultrasound accuracy and Amniocentesis. * Fetal infection - antenatal indications for increasedinvestigation...read more

Product Description: Midwives are encountering more and more women whose pregnancies are complicated by medical conditions. The number of women with cardiac disease becoming pregnant is growing each year, obesity, older age and the complex health problems of women born outside the United Kingdom have also been identified as key factors, and women with serious medical conditions who would have been unable to contemplate pregnancy are now able to access specialist care and become mothers...read more

Covering the possible emergencies, this midwifery text includes guidance on maternal and neonatal resuscitation, thromboembolism in pregnancy, pre-eclampsia, antepartum haemorrhage, malpresentations and malpositions, amniotic fluid embolism and other potential risks.