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Number 205
Tubal ligation at the time of cesarean delivery requires significant
additional physician work even though the technical work of the procedure is brief. Informed consent by the patient requires con...
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August 1998
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Number 234
(Reaffirmed 2010, Replaces No. 219, August 1999)
Prevention of transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from mother to fetus or newborn (vertical transmission) is a major goal in the care of pregnant women infected with HIV. An import...
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May 2000
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Number 240
(Reaffirmed 2008, Replaces No. 145, November 1994)
Competent surgical assistants should be available for all major obstetric and gynecologic operations. In many cases, the complexity of the surgery or the patient's condition will require the assistan...
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August 2000
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Number 275
(Reaffirmed 2005, Replaces No. 121, April 1993)
ABSTRACT: Effective rehabilitation and modern reproductive technology may increase the number of women considering pregnancy who have spinal cord injuries (SCIs). It is important that obstetricians c...
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September 2002
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Number 295
(Reaffirmed 2008, Replaces No. 231, February 2000)
ABSTRACT: Pain management should be provided whenever medically indicated. The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) believe t...
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July 2004
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Number 321
ABSTRACT: Recent legal actions and policies aimed at protecting the fetus as an entity separate from the woman have challenged the rights of pregnant women to make decisions about medical interventio...
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November 2005
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Number 326
ABSTRACT: The Committee on Obstetric Practice is concerned about the continued use of the term "fetal distress" as an antepartum or intrapartum diagnosis and the term "birth asphyxia" as a neonatal d...
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December 2005
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Washington, DC -- The use of episiotomy during labor should be restricted, with physicians encouraged to use clinical judgment to decide when the procedure is necessary, according to a new Practice B...
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March 2006
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Number 333
(Reaffirmed 2010, Replaces No. 174, July 1996)
ABSTRACT: The Apgar score provides a convenient shorthand for reporting the status of the newborn infant and the response to resuscitation. The Apgar score has been used inappropriately to predict sp...
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May 2006
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Number 339
(Reaffirmed 2010, Replaces No. 269, February 2002)
ABSTRACT: Neuraxial analgesia techniques are the most effective and least depressant treatments for labor pain. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists previously recommended that pra...
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June 2006
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Number 340
(Reaffirmed 2012, Replaces No. 265, December 2001)
ABSTRACT: In light of recent studies that further clarify the long-term risks of vaginal breech delivery, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends that the decision regardin...
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July 2006
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Number 346
(Reaffirmed 2012)
ABSTRACT: Amnioinfusion has been advocated as a technique to reduce the incidence of meconium aspiration and to improve neonatal outcome. However, a large proportion of women with meconium-stained am...
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October 2006
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Number 348
(Reaffirmed 2012)
ABSTRACT: Umbilical cord blood gas and acid-base assessment are the most objective determinations of the fetal metabolic condition at the moment of birth. Moderate and severe newborn encephalopathy, ...
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November 2006
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SP079
Antes de nacer, la mayoria de los bebes se trasladan a una posicion invertida (de cabeza) en el utero. Pero algunos no. Cuando las nalgas, los pies o ambos estan dispuestos de manera que saldrian pri...
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February 2007
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Number 376
(Reaffirmed 2012)
ABSTRACT: Safety concerns have been raised regarding the use of nalbuphine hydrochloride during labor. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists finds data are insufficient to recommend...
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August 2007
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Number 379
(Reaffirmed 2010)
ABSTRACT: In accordance with the new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Heart Association, all infants with meconium-stained amniotic fluid should no longer routinely...
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September 2007
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Number 381
(Reaffirmed 2012)
ABSTRACT: Subclinical hypothyroidism is diagnosed in asymptomatic women when the thyroid-stimulating hormone level is elevated and the free thyroxine level is within the reference range. Thyroid horm...
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October 2007
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Number 382
(Reaffirmed 2010)
ABSTRACT: There are insufficient data to determine the value of fetal monitoring prior to scheduled cesarean delivery in patients without risk factors.
With the increasing rate of schedule...
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October 2007
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Washington, DC -- Physicians should give balanced information to their pregnant patients who are considering cord blood banking, presenting both the advantages and disadvantages of public vs. private...
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February 2008
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Washington, DC -- Pregnant asthmatic women should continue to use their asthma medication in the lowest dose possible to manage symptoms during pregnancy, according to a new Practice Bulletin release...
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February 2008
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Number 404
(Reaffirmed 2011)
ABSTRACT: Late–preterm infants (defined as infants born between 34 0/7 weeks and 36 6/7 weeks of gestation) often are mistakenly believed to be as physiologically and metabolically mature as term inf...
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April 2008
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Washington, DC -- Misoprostol is a safe and cost-effective way to provide women with postabortion care services, especially in less developed countries where obstacles to timely health care remain an...
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January 2009
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Washington, DC -- Lack of access to adequate women's health care puts rural women in the US at a greatly increased risk of poor health outcomes compared with women in urban areas. The physician short...
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February 2009
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Number 433
(Replaces No. 256, May 2001)
ABSTRACT: A joint statement from the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists was developed to address issues of concern to both specialties. ...
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May 2009
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Chicago, IL -- "Mothers are the backbones of communities. When they die, children become orphaned, families are fragmented," said Jean Chamberlain Froese, MD, today during the President's Program at ...
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May 2009
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