Objective: To provide obstetrical and genetic health care practitioners with guidelines and recommendations for prenatal screening, diagnosis, and obstetrical management of fetal open and closed neural tube defects (OCNTD). Options: This review includes prenatal screening and diagnostic techniques currently being used for the detection of OCNTD including maternal serum alpha fetoprotein screeni...

The literature searches and bibliographic support for this guideline were undertaken by Becky Skidmore, Medical Research Analyst, Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.

2009 WRITING GROUP TO REVIEW NEW EVIDENCE AND UPDATE THE 2007 GUIDELINES ON PERIOPERATIVE CARDIOVASCULAR EVALUATION AND CARE FOR NONCARDIAC SURGERY Kirsten E. Fleischmann, MD, MPH, FACC, Chair; Joshua A. Beckman, MD, FACC*; Christopher E. Buller, MD, FACC†; Hugh Calkins, MD, FACC, FAHA‡; Lee A. Fleisher, MD, FACC, FAHA§; William K. Freeman, MD, FACC ; James B. Froehlich, MD, MPH, FACC†; Edward ...

The 2009 update of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Practice Guidelines for Management of Chronic Hepatitis B are now posted online at www.aasld.org. This is the fourth version of this guideline; the last version was published in 2007.1 The key changes in the 2009 version are new recommendations for first-line and second-line antiviral agents. Since the last upda...

The prevalence of diabetes mellitus is growing at epidemic proportions in the United States and worldwide. Most alarming is the steady increase in type 2 diabetes, especially among young and obese people. An estimated 7% of the US population has diabetes, and because of the increased longevity of this population, diabetes-associated complications are expected to rise in prevalence. Foot ulcerat...

Kathleen M. Davidson, MN, BSN Edited by Deborah Perry Schoenfelder, PhD, RN The death of a family member is a moment that matters. Family members of nursing home residents have reported difficulty recognizing the dying trajectory and being unprepared when death occurred (Forbes, Bern-Klug, & Gessert, 2000). Length of time as a family caregiver did not predict preparedness for the death. Researc...

2015 Guidelines for Perioperative Practice Last revised: July 2014. Copyright © 2015 AORN, Inc. All rights reserved. T he Guideline for Preoperative Patient Skin Antisepsis has been approved by the AORN Guidelines Advisory Board. It was presented as a proposed guideline for comments by members and others. The guideline is effective August 15, 2014. The recommendations in the guideline are inten...