Obstetric analgesia refers to the range of pharmacological and non-pharmacological techniques used to relieve pain during childbirth. In Australian hospitals…
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Obstetric Analgesia and Its Influence on Labour and the Newborn
Neonal Osteopenia of Prematurity: Screening and Supplementation
Neonatal osteopenia of prematurity, sometimes called metabolic bone disease of prematurity, is a condition characterised by reduced bone mineral content in…
Fetal echogenic bowel: aneuploidy risk and the diagnostic pathway
Finding bright or "echogenic" bowel during a second trimester morphology scan can leave expecting parents in a Sydney ultrasound suite feeling blindsided. The…
Maternal drug eruption in pregnancy: a differential diagnosis framework
Skin reactions during pregnancy can be alarming for both the patient and the clinician, particularly when a medication is suspected as the trigger. Maternal…
Reducing Perinatal Stroke Risk Through Maternal Care
Perinatal stroke refers to a cerebrovascular injury occurring before birth, during labour or in the first 28 days of life. It can result from arterial…
Neonatal cooling therapy: monitoring rebound hyperthermia after rewarming
When a newborn suffers hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, the first hours of life shape a lifetime of outcomes. Therapeutic hypothermia, often called neonatal…
Fetal Sacrococcygeal Teratoma and the Risk of High-Output Cardiac Failure
Sacrococcygeal teratoma is one of the more dramatic diagnoses a perinatal team can encounter on a routine morphology scan. The mass arising from the caudal end…
Maternal Hypertension: Diagnosis and Antihypertensive Choices
High blood pressure during pregnancy is common, clinically important and treatable. It may reflect chronic hypertension that existed before conception, develop…
Neonatal whole genome sequencing: clinical promise and ethical tensions
Whole genome sequencing has shifted from a research tool to a clinical reality in perinatal medicine, with turnaround times now measured in days rather than…
Assisted reproductive technology and perinatal outcomes explained
Across Australia, the number of babies conceived through assisted reproductive technology continues to climb year after year. Figures from the Australian and…
