681 Participants attending a conference on maternity care in London, Ont., last November said Canada is heading for a crisis because a shortage looms in the number of professionals available to provide maternal and newborn care. British Columbia family physician Michael Klein noted that the percentage of births handled by FPs has been declining since 1975. Canadian Institute for Health Informat...

Pregnancy is an important time period during reproductive cycle of every woman. WHO has set about certain guidelines, in the care pregnant ladies it’s called as Antenatal The main aim this to provide uneventful antenatal and there by producing a healthy offspring. Intrapartum also plays major role determining health status both mother fetus. Most discomforts can be directly visualized well inte...

This cross sectional record based institutional study was conducted in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Burdwan Medical College, Burdwan over ten years (1999-2008) aiming analysis of eclamptic mothers for evaluation of maternal and perinatal outcome with different anticonvulsant medications. Total 5991 pregnant mothers with eclampsia admitted in the inpatient department of the tertia...

Background: Cardiovascular disease in women is associated with 4% complications during pregnancy and the most frequent leading cause of maternal mortality reaching up to 15%. It stands third among common causes after obstetric haemorrhage preeclampsia respectively.The objective this study outcome heart pregnancy. Methods: An Observational was conducted over a period 8 months 50 antenatal patien...

OBJECTIVE The present study aims to analyze perinatal outcomes in twins given special care during pregnancy and labor and to compare fetal and neonatal outcomes in dichorionic twins with monochorionic twins. STUDY DESIGN Eighty eight (88) twin pregnancies booked for care at a tertiary care Fetal Medicine centre were included in this study. The maternal demographic variables, course of pregnan...

With the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic showing a shift towards women and young people, the increasing seroprevalence among women will result in an increase in the mother-to-child transmission of HIV. The vast majority of HIV-positive children worldwide acquire the infection through vertical transmission. The discovery of successful interventions that interrupt this transmission ha...