OBJECTIVES We aimed to use simple clinical questions to group women and provide their specific rates of miscarriage, preterm delivery, and stillbirth for reference. Further, our purpose was to describe who has experienced particularly low or high rates of each event. METHODS Data were collected as part of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health, a national prospective cohort. Repr...

OBJECTIVES There is significant variation in cut-off values for mean gestational sac diameter (MSD) and embryo crown-rump length (CRL) used to define miscarriage, values suggested in the literature ranging from 13 to 25 mm for MSD and from 3 to 8 mm for CRL. We aimed to define the false-positive rate (FPR) for the diagnosis of miscarriage associated with different CRL and MSD measurements with ...

statistics have shown that the incidence of miscarriage among nurse anesthetists and anesthesiologists who were pregnant before being em­ployed was 10% while those who were pregnant during their employment were 20%. this was attributed to the teratogenic effect of anesthetics agents used in the operating room on the fetus. today with the use of special askrog valve, 90% of the anesthetic gases ...