Category: Obstetrics

Obstetrics guidelines and clinical updates for GP locums

Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy (RCOG, 2024)

When to use the PUQE tool in general practice.

GP update: Recurrent miscarriage (RCOG 2023)

Dr Louise Hudman summarises some changes to advice for supporting women experiencing recurrent miscarriage.

Prof Robert Winston to present free NASGP fertility talk in May

Prof Winston will present an infertility update for GPs.

Antenatal care in general practice

VTE risk should be reassessed after every hospital admission or significant health event, a key takeaway from this update.

Obstetrics

NICE postnatal care update

A mammoth NICE update on newborns and their mothers' health.

Obstetrics

Gestational trophoblastic disease – a new RCOG guideline

New guideline from RCOG, published in June 2020, on managing Gestational Trophoblastic Disease (GTD). There is a useful section on when to suspect GTD.

e-learning – Iron deficiency in pregnancy

An October 2019 guideline from BSH on managing iron deficiency in pregnancy has a few interesting points, particularly for GP locums facing requests from midwives to prescribe iron

Obstetrics

e-learning | Hypertension in pregnancy

Louise Hudman introduces the latest guideline on hypertension in pregnancy from NICE.

Obstetrics

e-Learning | Alcohol exposure prenatally and its effects on children and young people

This is a guideline on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder from SIGN outlining the assessment and management of children who have had prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE).