Chapter 2 Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment for Opioid Use Disorders in Pregnancy Tricia E. Wright Substance use is common in women of childbearing age. Prior to pregnancy,…
Chapter 3 Substance Use Assessment during Pregnancy Jacquelyn Starer and Carl Christensen Universal screening for substance use disorders (SUDs) will identify many, but not all, pregnant women with SUDs. Stigma,…
Chapter 1 The Opioid Epidemic and Pregnant Women Tricia E. Wright The History of the Current Opioid Epidemic Sam Quinones’s Dreamland [1] details the current opioid epidemic and is an…
Chapter 4 Fetal Growth Restriction and Hypertensive Diseases of Pregnancy Christopher W. G. Redman and Anne Cathrine Staff Introduction Hypertension can present in pregnancy in three ways: chronic hypertension, a…
Chapter 3 Differential Diagnosis of Fetal Growth Restriction Sana Usman , Anna Lawin-O’Brien , and Christoph Lees The Initial Diagnosis History Fetal growth and birth weight are determined not only…
Chapter 4 Fetal Growth Restriction and Hypertensive Diseases of Pregnancy Christopher W. G. Redman and Anne Cathrine Staff Introduction Hypertension can present in pregnancy in three ways: chronic hypertension, a…
Chapter 2 Definition of Fetal Growth Restriction and Uteroplacental Insufficiency J. W. Ganzevoort and Basky Thilaganathan Introduction To understand any discussion, it is of paramount importance to be consistent in…
Chapter 1 What Is Optimal Fetal Growth? Blanka Vasak and Gerard H. A. Visser Introduction Normal fetal growth is usually defined as an estimated fetal weight between the 10th and…
Abstract Most breast abscesses develop as a complication of lactation mastitis. The incidence ranges from 0.4 to 11 per cent of all lactating mothers. Lactational breast abscesses are most often…
Abstract Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a clinical syndrome caused by ascending spread of infection from the vagina and/or endocervix into the pelvis causing endometritis, salpingitis, parametritis, oophritis, tubovarian abscess…
