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ABC OF ANTENATAL CARE

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Preface

The chapters in this book appeared originally as articles in the British Medical Journal and were welcomed by practitioners. The
articles were retuned for publication as a book, the first edition appearing in 1992. Demand asked for more and so the book was
updated for a second, a third and now a fourth edition in 2002.
Antenatal care has evolved from a philanthropic service for mothers and their unborn babies to a multiphasic screening
programme. Much has been added in the past few years but a lack of scientific scrutiny has meant that little has been taken away.
Healthy mothers and fetuses need little high technological care but some screening is desirable to allocate them with confidence to
the healthy group of pregnant women. Women and fetuses at high risk need all the scientific help available to ensure the safest
environment for delivery and aftercare. The detection and successful management of women and fetuses at high risk is the science
of antenatal care; the care of other mothers at lower risk is the art of the subject and probably can proceed without much technology.
Midwives are practitioners of normal obstetrics and are taking over much of the care of normal or low-risk pregnancies, backed up
by general practitioner obstetricians in the community and by consultant led obstetric teams in hospitals.
This book has evolved from over 40 years of practice, reading, and research. We have tried to unwind the tangled skeins of
aetiology and cause and the rational from traditional management, but naturally what remains is an opinion. To broaden this, the
authorship has been widened; Dr Margery Morgan, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Singleton Hospital, has joined
Professor Chamberlain as a co-author, bringing with her the new skills used in antenatal care.
We thank our staff at Singleton Hospital for willingly giving good advice and contributing to this book, especially Howard
Whitehead, medical photographer, and Judith Biss, ultrasonographer. Our secretaries Caron McColl and Sally Rowland diligently
decoded our writings and made the script legible while the staff of BMJ Books, headed by Christina Karaviotis, turned the whole into
a fine book.

Geoffrey Chamberlain
Margery Morgan
Singleton Hospital
Swansea

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No. Panggil

600

Penerbit

: BMJBook., 2002

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English

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600

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Subjek

Antenatal care

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