Gynecology & Obstetrics (all articles)

Exposure to antenatal corticosteroids and outcomes in preterm infants

31 Mar, 2017 | 19:00h | UTC

Exposure to any antenatal corticosteroids and outcomes in preterm infants by gestational age: prospective cohort study – The BMJ (free)

Editorial: Antenatal corticosteroids for women at risk of preterm delivery (free)

See also: Antenatal Steroids Benefit Very Premature Infants Most – Medscape (free registration required)

“This study found that among infants born from 23 to 34 weeks’ gestation, antenatal exposure to corticosteroids compared with no exposure was associated with lower mortality and morbidity at most gestations”.

 

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Management of Breech Presentation

28 Mar, 2017 | 16:47h | UTC

Management of Breech Presentation: Green-top Guideline – British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (free)

 

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Surgeries are being performed with the patient awake

27 Mar, 2017 | 00:59h | UTC

Going Under the Knife, With Eyes and Ears Wide Open – New York Times (free access to 10 articles per month)

“More and more surgeries are being performed with the patient awake and looking on, for financial and medical reasons”.

 

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Prenatal nutrition, socioenvironmental conditions, and child development

27 Mar, 2017 | 00:43h | UTC

Maternal multiple micronutrient supplementation and other biomedical and socioenvironmental influences on children’s cognition at age 9–12 years in Indonesia: follow-up of the SUMMIT randomised trial – The Lancet Global Health (free)

Related commentary: Prenatal nutrition, socioenvironmental conditions, and child development (free)

“Maternal MMN had long-term benefits for child cognitive development at 9–12 years of age, thereby supporting its role in early childhood development, and policy change toward MMN”. The related commentary above does not seem to agree with this statement from the authors, stating that the new evidence does not provide enough weight for a policy change from prenatal iron and folate to MMN supplementation.

 

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