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Labor, delivery, postpartum

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Premature labor, preterm delivery

Australia

• Medical Services Advisory Committee
  • Fetal Fibronectin test for preterm labour [2006]

Australia, New Zealand

• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • The use of nifedipine in obstetrics [2008]

Canada

• British Columbia Perinatal Health Program
  • Preterm Labour [2005]

• Canadian Paediatric Society
  • Management of the Woman with Threatened Birth of an Infant of Extremely Low Gestational Age (Canadian Paediatric Society and Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada) [1994]

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • The use of progesterone for prevention of preterm birth [2008]
  • Ultrasound cervical assessment in predicting preterm birth [2001]

International

• Cochrane Library
  • Vitamin K prior to preterm birth for preventing neonatal periventricular haemorrhage [2009]
  • Terbutaline pump maintenance therapy after threatened preterm labor for preventing preterm birth [2009]
  • Prophylactic oral betamimetics for preventing preterm labour in singleton pregnancies [2009]
  • Prophylactic antibiotics for inhibiting preterm labour with intact membranes [2009]
  • Probiotics for preventing preterm labour [2009]
  • Prenatal thyrotropin-releasing hormone for preterm birth [2009]
  • Prenatal administration of progesterone for preventing preterm birth [2009]
  • Phenobarbital prior to preterm birth for preventing neonatal periventricular haemorrhage [2009]
  • Oral betamimetics for maintenance therapy after threatened preterm labour [2009]
  • Nitric oxide donors for the treatment of preterm labour [2009]
  • Maintenance therapy with oxytocin antagonists for inhibiting preterm birth after threatened preterm labour [2009]
  • Magnesium sulphate for women at risk of preterm birth for neuroprotection of the fetus [2009]
  • Magnesium sulphate for preventing preterm birth in threatened preterm labour [2009]
  • Magnesium for preventing preterm birth after threatened preterm labour [2009]
  • Hydration for treatment of preterm labour [2009]
  • Fetal fibronectin testing for reducing the risk of preterm birth [2009]
  • Cyclo-oxygenase (COX) inhibitors for treating preterm labour [2009]
  • Cervical assessment by ultrasound for preventing preterm delivery [2009]
  • Calcium channel blockers for inhibiting preterm labour [2009]
  • Bed rest in singleton pregnancies for preventing preterm birth [2009]
  • Antenatal lower genital tract infection screening and treatment programs for preventing preterm delivery [2009]

South Africa

• Maternal Care Manual - Perinatal Education Programme
  • Preterm labour and preterm rupture of the membranes [2006]

United Kingdom

• Perinatal Institute
  • Prematurity [2002]

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Preterm Birth - study group statement [2004]
  • Tocolytic Drugs for Women in Preterm Labour [2002]

• UK National Screening Committee
  • Preterm labour screening [2006]

United States of America

• American College of Radiology
  • Assessment of Gravid Cervix [2008]

• Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement
  • Ultrasound Cervical Length for the Prediction of Preterm Labor [2003]
  • Home Uterine Activity Monitoring for Detection of Preterm Labor [2002]
  • Tocolytic Therapy for Preterm Labor [2000]
  • Fetal Fibronectin for the Prediction of Preterm Labor [2000]

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • The use of progesterone for prevention of preterm birth. Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada [2008]
  • Screening for bacterial vaginosis in pregnancy to prevent preterm delivery: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement [2008]
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® assessment of gravid cervix [2008]
  • Management of preterm labor. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [2003]

WHO

• WHO Reproductive Health Library
  • Prenatal administration of progesterone for preventing preterm birth in women considered at risk of preterm birth [2009]
  • Magnesium sulfate for women at risk of preterm birth for neuroprotection of the fetus [2009]
  • Antenatal lower genital tract infection screening and treatment programmes for preventing preterm delivery [2009]
  • Bed rest in singleton pregnancies for preventing preterm birth [2007]
  • Tocolytics for preterm labour [2006]
  • Prophylactic antibiotics for inhibiting preterm labour with intact membranes [2002]

Articles in journals

• American Family Physician
  • Genitourinary Infections and Their Association with Preterm Labor [2002]

• Archives of Disease in Childhood
  • The management of preterm labour [2007]
  • Management of preterm labour [2000]

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Reductionist and system approaches to study the role of infection in preterm labor and delivery [2007]
  • Overview. Preterm labour: mechanisms and management [2007]
  • New research models and novel signal analysis in studies on preterm labor: a key to progress? [2007]
  • Inflammatory pathways in the mechanism of parturition [2007]
  • A translational approach to studying preterm labour [2007]

• British Medical Journal
  • Evidence based care - Preterm birth [2005]
  • Organisation and delivery of perinatal services [2004]
  • Obstetric issues in preterm birth [2004]
  • Immediate care of the preterm infant [2004]
  • Epidemiology of preterm birth [2004]
  • Does screening reduce preterm births? [2004]
  • Accuracy of cervicovaginal fetal fibronectin test in predicting risk of spontaneous preterm birth: systematic review [2002]
  • Preterm labour and premature rupture of membranes [1999]

• Endocrine Reviews
  • Endocrine and Paracrine Regulation of Birth at Term and Preterm [2000]

• Experimental Biology and Medicine
  • The Role of n-3 Fatty Acids in Gestation and Parturition [2001]

• Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
  • Ontogenesis of {beta}-Adrenoceptor Signaling: Implications for Perinatal Physiology and for Fetal Effects of Tocolytic Drugs [2003]

• Journal of the American College of Nutrition
  • New Data on the Importance of Gestational Mg Deficiency [2004]

• Medicina Oral, Patología Oral y Cirugía Bucal
  • Association between periodontitis in pregnancy and preterm or low birth weight: Review of the literature [2008]

• Pediatrics
  • Quality of Life of Formerly Preterm and Very Low Birth Weight Infants From Preschool Age to Adulthood: A Systematic Review [2008]
  • "Late-Preterm" Infants: A Population at Risk [2007]

• Reproduction
  • The role of nuclear factor kappa B in human labour [2005]

• Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology
  • Immunology of term and preterm labor [2003]

• Revista de Saúde Pública
  • Increase in preterm births in Brazil: review of population-based studies [2008]

• Singapore Medical Journal
  • Tocolytic treatment for the management of preterm labour: a systematic review [2006]

{Related topics}

• Guidelines
  • Premature rupture of membranes
  • Newborn respiratory tract diseases
  • Miscarriage
  • Maternal and neonatal infections
  • Labor, delivery
  • Fetal maturation