Coming in the November Issue
Watch your mail the first week of November for the new issue of Contemporary OB/GYN and the following articles from the magazine you trust to deliver scientific information you can use in ob/gyn practice:
Osteoporosis: Tactics for Tailored Management
Half of the postmenopausal women in your practice will have a fracture at some time during their lives. How can you reduce those odds for every patient in your practice? With an individualized approach, following the principles outlined in our cover story by Holly Thacker, MD, director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Specialized Women’s Health.
HT in 2011: Rethinking the Evidence
It’s been nearly a decade since the first results from the Women’s Health Initiative pulled the rug out from under the old assumption that estrogen was good for most postmenopausal women. In this article, Lubna Pal, MBBS, MRCOG, MS , associate professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences,Yale University School of Medicine, distills the mountain of data from WHI into practical, evidence-based guidelines for use of hormonal therapy.
Obstetric Emergencies: Respiratory Distress
Fewer than one patient in 100 will experience acute respiratory failure during gestation. In this article, Sonya S. Abdel-Razeq, MD, assistant professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at the Yale University School of Medicine, reviews the physiology of gestation and its impact on oxygenation, explains how to distinguish causes of hypoxic and hyperbaric respiratory failure, and outlines principles for management of decompensation to help ensure a positive outcome.
Fetal Monitoring Mythbusters
This new, bi-monthly series takes a fresh look at FHR interpretation. Join David A. Miller, MD, professor of clinical obstetrics, gynecology, and pediatrics at USC’s Keck School of medicine and the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles as he separates fact from fiction about NICHD definitions to arrive at the real evidence for use of FHR.
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