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This guideline covers care for pregnant women and pregnant people with a twin or triplet pregnancy in addition to routine care during pregnancy and labour. It aims to reduce the risk of complications and improve outcomes.
Suspected sepsis: recognition, diagnosis and early management (NG51)
This guideline covers the recognition, diagnosis and early management of suspected sepsis. It includes recommendations on recognition and early assessment, initial treatment, escalating care, finding and controlling the source of infection, early monitoring, information and support, and training and education.
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Sections for NG51
- Overview
- Could this be sepsis?
- Face to face assessment
- Under 16s: evaluating risk and managing suspected sepsis
- Pregnant or recently pregnant people: evaluating risk and managing suspected sepsis
- Over 16s (not pregnant or recently pregnant): evaluating risk and managing suspected sepsis
- Antibiotic therapy, intravenous fluid and oxygen
- Finding and controlling the source of infection
Neonatal infection: antibiotics for prevention and treatment (NG195)
This guideline covers preventing bacterial infection in healthy babies of up to and including 28 days corrected gestational age, treating pregnant women whose unborn baby is at risk of infection, and caring for babies of up to and including 28 days corrected gestational age with a suspected or confirmed bacterial infection. It aims to reduce delays in recognising and treating infection and prevent unnecessary use of antibiotics. The guideline does not cover viral infections.
Our health inequalities guidance supports strategies that improve population health as a whole, while offering particular benefit to the most disadvantaged
This International Women’s Day, we’re specifically focusing on the invaluable contributions of two of the women who help shape our guidance through their independent / voluntary committee roles. Hear from them, as they talk about their involvement with NICE and what #InspireInclusion means to them.
Supporting the health and care system in improving productivity
Recovering core services and improving productivity is an immediate priority for the NHS. To help, we’ve put all our relevant guidance and recommendations supporting this work in one place.
This guideline covers when to offer and discuss caesarean birth, procedural aspects of the operation, and care after caesarean birth. It aims to improve the consistency and quality of care for women and pregnant people who are thinking about having a caesarean birth or have had a caesarean birth in the past and are now pregnant again.
This quality standard covers preventing bacterial infection in newborn babies, treating pregnant women and pregnant people whose babies are at risk of infection, and treating newborn babies with suspected or confirmed bacterial infection. It includes when to give antibiotics to prevent and treat neonatal bacterial infection and describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement. This includes early-onset (within 72 hours of birth) and late-onset (between 72 hours and 28 days following birth) neonatal infection.
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Sections for QS75
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Intrapartum antibiotics
- Quality statement 2: Assessment for early-onset neonatal infection
- Quality statement 3: Prompt antibiotic treatment for neonatal infection
- Quality statement 4: Reassessing antibiotic treatment for neonatal infection
- Quality statement 5: Information and support for parents and carers
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- About this quality standard
ventouse . Source guidance details Comes from guidance Intrapartum care Number NG235 Date issued September 2023 Other
labour . Source guidance details Comes from guidance Intrapartum care Number NG235 Date issued September 2023 Other
applicable) Source guidance details Comes from guidance Intrapartum care Number NG235 Date issued September 2023 Other
haemorrhage . Source guidance details Comes from guidance Intrapartum care Number NG235 Date issued September 2023 Other
trauma . Source guidance details Comes from guidance Intrapartum care Number NG235 Date issued September 2023 Other
This guideline covers the care of women and their babies during labour and immediately after birth. It focuses on women who give birth between 37 and 42 weeks of pregnancy (‘term’). The guideline helps women to make informed choices about where to have their baby and about their care in labour. It also aims to reduce variation in aspects of care.
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Sections for NG235
- Overview
- Recommendations
- Recommendations for research
- Rationale and impact
- Context
- Appendix A: Adverse outcomes for different places of birth
- Appendix B: Outcomes for different places of birth – by BMI at booking
- Appendix C: Outcomes for intravenous remifentanil patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) compared with intramuscular pethidine
evidence-based guidance contributes to improvements in maternity and neonatal care. Published September 2019 // Updates