Continuing to set the standard for maternal-fetal practice, the seventh edition of Queenan's Management of High-Risk Pregnancy provides practical, clinically useful information on the full spectrum of perinatal care. Focused on clinical decision-making, this invaluable reference contains authoritative, evidence-based information on the factors of high-risk pregnancy, biochemical and biophysical monitoring, maternal disease, obstetric complications, patient safety in labor and delivery, and more.

With more than 50 concise chapters, this text has been written by leading experts, and contains evidence-based protocols, algorithms, case studies, potential outcome measures, medications, and illustrative case reports to ensure the best possible outcomes for fetal and maternal patients. This text offers clear guidance on the common problems encountered in the day-to-day management of high-risk pregnancies.

The seventh edition of Queenan's Management of High-Risk Pregnancy includes new and updated chapters with the most current evidence-based information and protocols available on topics such as infectious diseases in pregnancy, vaping, operative vaginal delivery, postpartum hemorrhage, pregnancies in women with disabilities, maternal anemia, malaria, and HIV infection.

Queenan's Management of High-Risk Pregnancy: An Evidence-Based Approach, Seventh Edition, remains an indispensable reference and guide for obstetricians, gynecologists, OB/GYN trainees, midwives, and primary and general practitioners.

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Cover
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
List of Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Overview of High‐Risk Pregnancy
Chapter 2: Nutrition in Pregnancy
Chapter 3: Alcohol and Substance Use Disorder
Chapter 4: Environmental Agents and Reproductive Risk
Chapter 5: Genetic Screening for Mendelian Disorders
Chapter 6: Screening for Congenital Heart Disease
Chapter 7: First‐ and Second‐Trimester Screening for Fetal Aneuploidy and Neural Tube Defects
Chapter 8: Sonographic Dating and Standard Fetal Biometry
Chapter 9: Antepartum Fetal Monitoring
Chapter 10: Interpreting Intrapartum Fetal Heart Tracings
Chapter 11: Sickle Cell Anemia
Chapter 12: Anemia
Chapter 13: Thrombocytopenia
Chapter 14: Inherited and Acquired Thrombophilias
Chapter 15: Thromboembolic Disorders
Chapter 16: Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy
Chapter 17: Renal Disease
Chapter 18: Pregnancy in Transplant Patients
Chapter 19: Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
Chapter 20: Diabetes Mellitus
Chapter 21: Thyroid Disorders
Chapter 22: Asthma
Chapter 23: Epilepsy
Chapter 24: Chronic Hypertension
Chapter 25: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Chapter 26: Perinatal Infections
Chapter 27: Malaria
Chapter 28: Hepatitis in Pregnancy
Chapter 29: HIV Infection
Chapter 30: Pregnancy in Women with Disabilities
Chapter 31: COVID‐19 in Pregnancy
Chapter 32: Recurrent Pregnancy Loss
Chapter 33: Cervical Insufficiency
Chapter 34: Gestational Hypertension, Preeclampsia, and Eclampsia
Chapter 35: Postpartum Hemorrhage
Chapter 36: Emergency Care
Chapter 37: Rh and Other Blood Group Alloimmunizations
Chapter 38: Multiple Gestations
Chapter 39: Polyhydramnios and Oligohydramnios
Chapter 40: Pathogenesis and Prediction of Preterm Delivery
Chapter 41: Preterm (Prelabor) Premature Rupture of Membranes
Chapter 42: Management of Preterm Labor
Chapter 43: Placenta Previa and Related Disorders
Chapter 44: Fetal Growth Restriction
Chapter 45: Induction of Labor
Chapter 46: Cesarean Delivery
Chapter 47: Vaginal Birth after Cesarean Delivery
Chapter 48: Breech Delivery
Chapter 49: Operative Vaginal Delivery
Chapter 50: Obstetric Analgesia and Anesthesia
Chapter 51: Quality and Patient Safety
Chapter 52: Genetic Amniocentesis, Chorionic Villus Sampling, Intrauterine Transfusion, and Shunts
Chapter 53: Fetal Surgery
Index
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