Clinical - Antenatal

Routine Antenatal Care for Healthy Pregnant Women (NICE Guidelines UK)

These guidelines were released by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence in London. They are an update of the 2003 guidelines, and have been developed with the following aims: to offer information on best practice for baseline clinical care of all pregnancies and comprehensive information on the antenatal care of the healthy woman with an uncomplicated singleton pregnancy. It provides evidence-based information for use by clinicians and pregnant women to make decisions about appropriate treatment in specific circumstances.
 
RCPA Manual (Pathology Manual)
This is a very handy site. It is the RCPA (Royal College of Pathologists of Australia) Manual: Fifth Edition (2009). It can be searched by either condition or pathology test and includes normal values and explanations.
 
The 3 Centres Consensus Guidelines on Antenatal Care
These Australian guidelines have been developed for 'normal healthy women with an uncomplicated pregnancy'. From this site you can download individual guidelines. They were last reviewed in June 2006.
 
A Guide to Tests and Investigations in Uncomplicated Pregnancies
This booklet is based on the evidence based antenatal guidelines developed by the 3 Centres, Victoria. It is designed for consumers. The layout is easy to follow and and describes which tests are done, at what stage of pregnancy, and what they are for.  The booklet is a large PDF file (3.1mb), so this link takes you to a page where you can choose to download the booklet or the 'Guideline Summary Prompt Card'.
 
Drug & Alcohol Use in Pregnancy
This link takes you to a Department of Health and Aging web page which holds the publication 'Alcohol and Other Drugs: A Handbook for Health Professionals'. On this page click on the PDF 'Part 4: Issues for special consideration'. The first chapter in Part 4 is Chapter 15 - Pregnancy and Drug use. This chapter gives a brief overview of the effect of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, heroin and stimulants on the unborn fetus and the newborn baby.
 
National Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Drug Use During Pregnancy, Birth and the Early Development Years of the Newborn
This link takes you to the NSW Health website where you can download these guidelines. These nationally agreed clinical guidelines are intended to support a range of health care workers who care for women with drug and alcohol use issues, and their infants and families. 
 
Diabetes in Pregnancy
This link will take you to the Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society website. 
Articles that can be accessed from this website are "Gestational diabetes mellitus - management guidelines" and "Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes in pregnancy guidelines" 
 
Hypertension in Pregnancy
On this website - the Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand - you will find the "Guidelines for the Management of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy 2008"
 
Intute
This link will take you to the nursing, midwifery and allied health page of the intute website. This website provides web-based resources on a variety of topics within your field of interest.
 
Rural Obstetrics and Midwifery Guidelines

This document provides guidelines for rural obstetric and midwifery services in Western Australia

Click on the link above to be directed to the PDF guideline
 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention produces a weekly Morbidity and Mortality Report (MMWR). This link will take you to the weekly report. From this page you can view both the current and past volumes of the MMWR weekly report.
 
Transfusion Medicine Manual
The transfusion medicine manual is an online manual made available by the Australian Red Cross Blood Service. The manual has information about all blood products and the collection and processing of blood products. There are a number of resources also available on this site including downloadable pamphlets for women who are having a normal pregnancy and are Rh(D) Negative and women who have experienced early pregnancy loss and are RH (D) Negative. There is also a downloadable wall chart explaining the guidelines for the use of RH (D) Immunoglobulin for your clinics or health service.