This guideline covers diagnosing and managing hypertension (high blood pressure), including preeclampsia, during pregnancy, labour and birth. It also includes advice for women with hypertension
who wish to conceive and women who have had a pregnancy complicated by hypertension. It aims
to improve care du...
This guideline covers care during labour and birth for women who need extra support because they
have a medical condition or complications in their current or previous pregnancy. The guideline also
covers women who have had no antenatal care. It aims to improve experiences and outcomes for
women and thei...
This up-to-date, comprehensive and consolidated guideline on essential intrapartum care brings together new and existing WHO recommendations that, when delivered as a package, will ensure good-quality and evidence-based care irrespective of the setting or level of health care. The recommendations present...
RESUMEN Objetivo: reducir la variabilidad injustificada y apoyar a los profesionales de la salud con la mejor evidencia en torno a la efectividad y seguridad de las intervenciones disponibles para la prevención de eventos tromboembólicos venosos durante la gestación, el parto o el puerperio, y gener...
Desarrollar de manera sistemática recomendaciones basadas en la evidencia para la prevención, detección temprana y atención de las alteraciones del embarazo, parto o puerperio, con el fin de optimizar la calidad de la atención obstétrica, mejorar la salud materno-fetal y reducir la morbimortalidad ...
Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is a major cause of mortality, morbidity and long term disability related to pregnancy and childbirth. Effective interventions to prevent and treat PPH exist and can largely reduce the burden of this life-threatening condition. Given the availability of new scientific evidenc...
One of the Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations in 2000 is to
reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters by 2015. If this is to be achieved,
maternal deaths related to postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) must be significantly
reduced. In support of this, health workers in developing countries...
