BACKGROUND Studies of prenatal detection of congenital heart disease (CHD) in the UK, Italy, and Norway indicate that it should be possible to improve the prenatal detection rate of CHD in Sweden. These studies have shown that training programs, visualization of the outflow tracts and color-Doppler all can help to speed up and improve the detection rate and accuracy. We aimed to introduce a mor...

BACKGROUND Delayed diagnosis of critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) in neonates increases morbidity and mortality. The use of pulse oximetry screening is recommended to increase detection of these conditions. The contribution of pulse oximetry in a tertiary-care birthing center may be different from at other sites. METHODS We analyzed CCHD pulse oximetry screening for newborns ≥ 35 weeks...

Background: Prenatal yoga is a slow movement exercise combined with breathing exercises to maintain the posture of mother-to-be, calm soul, and prepare for birth by reducing pain, increasing physical psychological comfort. Purpose: To determine effect combination prenatal on length labor at Nambo Public Health Center. Method: quasi-experimental Non-Equivalent Group Design. The sample pregnant w...

this is a field study, done with the purpose of detecting awareness rate of midwifery students about the prenatal, intrapartal, post partal care of women suffering from aids in the nursing and midwifery faculties in medical university science ministry of heath and medical teaching in tehran city (iran, 1993).   in this research multi stage random sampling method was used, and 124 of third and f...

The prenatal obstetric ultrasound community has moved substantially towards recognition of the benefits of a prenatal diagnosis since the unfortunate impact of the underpowered RADIUS study that showed no benefit of prenatal ultrasound1. Prenatal diagnosis of critical isolated congenital heart disease (CHD) confers benefit by reducing neonatal morbidity and mortality, particularly in cases with...

extract when a woman undergoes genetic testing of her fetus, the physiologic and emotional demands are great. careful nursing assessment and support are vital. the main benefit of prenatal genetic diagnosis is that women be given the opportunity to coping with your pregnancy where fetal abnormalities has been diagnosed or achieve  to a complete relaxation with  the positive results obtained . e...

abstract background thalassemia is common in the iranian population, and it must be considered in the differential diagnosis of the microcytic hypochromic anemia. the molecular analysis of β-thalassemia is necessary for prenatal molecular diagnosis. α-thalassemia caused by loss of function of either one of the two duplicated α-globin genes or in less frequent non deletion mutations mostly locat...