The Pedersen hypothesis was formulated more than 50 years ago. Jorgen Pedersen primarily cared for women with type 1 diabetes. He suggested that fetal overgrowth was related to increased transplacental…
Although gynecologic cancers account for only 10% of all new cancer cases in women, these cancers account for 20% of all female cancer survivors. Improvements in cancer care have resulted…
Decision support (DS) may help to improve patient safety by helping clinicians improve the evaluation, assessment, and treatment of patients. By providing best practice guidelines at critical decision points, errors…
Late preterm delivery, defined as birth between 34 0/7 to 36 6/7 weeks’ gestation, has increased at a rate higher than that of all preterm birth for the past 20…
Ultrasonography is commonly utilized in obstetric practice to estimate fetal weight at term. The seminal paper by Lubchenco et al introduced into the field of obstetrics what is commonly referred…
As an obstetrician, present at the dawn of intrapartum electronic fetal monitoring (EFM), I had every expectation that EFM would improve perinatal outcomes and that these effects would be validated…
THE ISSUE: Defined as delivery at 34 0/7 -36 6/7 weeks, late preterm births have increased by 15% between 1992 and 2002 and currently they occur in about 8% of…
Deliveries at 34 0/7 to 36 6/7 weeks, by definition, are late preterm births (LPB). In 2007, of 4,317,119 births in the United States, about 9% (383,792) were LPB; of…
Fig 31.1 Trocar 10 mm Fig. 31.2 Trocar 10 mm, Veress needle Laparoscopy is performed via three ports of entry after insufflation of the peritoneal cavity by electronic high-flow pneumoperitoneal…
Fig. 30.1 Criterion for diagnosis of PCOS 1. NICHD (1990) [5] 2. ESHRE/ASRM (2003) [6] 3. AEPCOS (2009) [7] 30.4 Clinical Presentation of PCOS The features of…
