Intrapartum care
Intrapartum care: management and delivery of care to women in labour
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Clinical guideline
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| Date issued:
September 2007
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| Expected review date:
TBC |
| Reference:
CG55 |
Summary
The advice in the NICE guideline covers:
- healthy women who are giving birth at 37–42 weeks (known as ‘term’).
It does not specifically look at women
- who are giving birth before 37 weeks
- whose unborn baby is not growing properly
- who have conditions such as pre-eclampsia (high blood pressure during pregnancy) or diabetes, or infections such as group B streptococcus, HIV or genital herpes virus
- who are having more than one baby
- who need a caesarean section
This guideline is an update of the Electronic fetal monitoring (Guideline C) issued in May 2001 and a partial update of Induction of labour (Guideline D) issued in June 2001
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Background information
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Implementing this guidance
Any further information NICE has produced to help the NHS implement this guideline locally is linked to below:
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