High-risk pregnancies present life-threatening challenges to two of your patients: the mother and her fetus. The direct, exemplary guidance in Protocols for High-Risk Pregnancy enables you to better understand your patients' conditions devise optimum management strategies maximize the outcome and minimize the complications for both the mother and her fetus To enhance clinical relevance, each protocol is written as if the patient were present. Evidence to support an intervention is given where it exists. The authors' experience provides additional wise counsel. Key references provide the springboard for a deeper understanding of a topic. In this more compact and fully updated sixth edition, new protocols include Amniotic fluid disorders Depression Fetal growth restriction HIV Indicated late preterm and early term birth Malaria Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis Designed for clinical practice by the leaders of two generations of maternal-fetal medicine, no obstetrician or obstetric health care provider can afford to miss Protocols for High-Risk Pregnancy.

Author Biography

John T. Queenan, MD, Professor and Chairman Emeritus, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Georgetown University, School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA. Catherine Y. Spong, MD, Bethesda, Maryland,?USA. Charles J. Lockwood, MD, MHCM, Dean, Morsani College of Medicine; Senior Vice President, USF Health Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.