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Clinician to Clinician: Reaffirming the role of lung maturity testing in the at-risk pregnancyKnowledge of fetal lung maturity provides useful adjunctive information that is unique and relevant to a patient.
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Breastfeeding myths and mainstays for the obstetricianStrategies to help more of your patients breastfeed longer
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Fetal Fibronectin: The Benefits of a High Negative Predictive Value in Management of Preterm LaborThe clinical diagnosis of preterm labor (PTL) has up to a 50% false-positive rate, often leading to unnecessary hospitalizations and interventions. What objective tools can clinicians use to accurately diagnose true PTL - and reduce the drain on resources and overexposure to treatments?
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The ob/gyn hospitalistA look at the evidence shows that a program using ob/gyn hospitalists makes sense for many facilities and may improve outcomes.
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Home birth: The obstetrician's ethical responseThe professional responsibility model of obstetric ethics provides a powerful antidote to maternal rights-based reductionism.
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Home birth: The obstetrician's ethical responseThe professional responsibility model of obstetric ethics provides a powerful antidote to maternal rights-based reductionism.
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ACOG Guidelines at a glance: Lynch syndromeIdentification and surveillance will help carriers avoid cancer.
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COG Puzzler: What's Gyn got to do with it?A 14-year-old with altered mental status has a seizure in the ER. Find out why a gynecology consult was called for.
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Robotic surgery in the morbidly obese patient: a surgeon’s planning guideCareful preoperative planning and positioning will help to overcome some of the challenges presented by the obese patient's body habitus.
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The Perinatal Episode of Care Model: How will it affect you and your high-risk patients?Limited patient access to care and financial penalties to high-risk providers may be unintended consequences of this payment system.
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The Perinatal Episode of Care Model: How will it affect you and your high-risk patients?Limited patient access to care and financial penalties to high-risk providers may be unintended consequences of this payment system.
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How to manage obstructive sleep apnea in pregnancyManagement of OSA in pregnant women should continue through the postpartum period and should be multidisciplinary.
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Obstetric history and CVD riskHow a woman’s body responds to pregnancy may predict her later cardiovascular health.
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Preterm birth: progress and prospectsSteady declines in preterm birth are good news but there are more newborn lives to save.
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Preterm birth: progress and prospectsSteady declines in preterm birth are good news but there are more newborn lives to save.
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EOC schemes limit options and accessYet another financial penalty imposed upon healthcare providers/systems
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Healthcare reform, EHRs, and adolescent confidentialityRegulations are becoming more complicated and vary by state.
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Healthcare reform, EHRs, and adolescent confidentialityRegulations are becoming more complicated and vary by state.
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The opioid pain reliever epidemicThe aim of this article is to educate ob/gyns about what not to do for acute and chronic pain, in the hope that increased awareness will help us prevent suffering and loss of life from opioid pain relievers.
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Outpatient cervical ripening: Has its time come?Two doctors from the same health system argue the opposite sides of this issue.
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Healthcare reform, EHRs, and adolescent confidentialityRegulations are becoming more complicated and vary by state.
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First Person: Our shoulder dystocia policyThis hospital uses a counseling form to educate their patients about the risk of recurrence of a shoulder dystocia and to choose whether they want to have another vaginal delivery.
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Outpatient cervical ripening: Has its time come?Two doctors from the same health system argue the opposite sides of this issue.
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Mini-laparoscopyCompared with single-incision surgery, surgery using mini-laparoscopic instruments is safe and is correlated with lower operative time and less postoperative pain.
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The case for surgery for endometriosisLaparoscopic excision should remain the standard of care for endometriosis, although its success depends on the surgeon’s ability to excise all disease from all effected areas.
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Nimble laser devices for minimally invasive gynecologic surgeryReconsidering the role of the laser in surgical gynecologic practice in view of the radical technical innovations that have changed the tool in recent years.
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Tech innovation: how to turn your idea into a marketable medical deviceFinancial sustainability, intellectual property rights, and protection of the idea are all considerations for physician inventors who want to create new medical devices.
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Nimble laser devices for minimally invasive gynecologic surgeryReconsidering the role of the laser in surgical gynecologic practice in view of the radical technical innovations that have changed the tool in recent years.
