Medical Management Including Delivery

Stillbirth: Prediction, Prevention and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 229-241

  Dudley, Donald J ^a  

^a University of Texas Health Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Expectant management, medical induction of labor surgical induction and delivery; Fetal death in multiple gestation expectant management considered; Fetal death management and considerations; Medical management including delivery; Oxytocin, available since 1940s employed in iufd management; Prostaglandin induction of labor management of intrauterine fetal death (IUFD), changing; Risk for complications small, risk not to preclude offer of expectant management; Studies on iufd prior to sonography for fetal diagnosis; Surgical induction and evacuation techniques for surgical induction of labor; Transcervical catheter placement Foley catheter, transcervically placed, and viable fetus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885761370     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444398038.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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