High Risk Pregnancy and Child [Paperback]

to English edition.- to Czech edition.- The Present State, Mission and Social Significance of Perinatal Medicine.- Perinatal mortality.- Population problems.- Perinatal morbidity.- Economic consequences.- Future prospects.- Screening and Differentiation of the High Risk Pregnancy.- Screening of the high risk pregnancy.- High risk pregnancy registration and differentiation.- Further auxiliary measures.- General Case History.- Age and parity.- Pre-pregnancy height and weight.- Sterility.- Chronic diseases.- Developmental uterine anomalies.- Previous Pregnancies.- Artificial termination of pregnancy.- Repeated spontaneous abortions.- Congenital anomalies.- Present Pregnancy.- Diabetes and pregnancy.- EPH gestosis.- Rh immunological conflict between mother and foetus.- Prematurity.- Some infections during pregnancy.- Nutrition and pregnancy.- Cardiopathies.- Twins.- Anaemia and bleeding during pregnancy.- Asymptomatic bacteriuria.- Protracted pregnancy.- Smoking and pregnancy.- Interval between present and preceding pregnancy.- Antenatal care.- Complications During Labour.- Breech delivery.- Protracted labour.- Premature rupture of the membranes.- Fever during labour.- Umbilical cord complications.- Signs of hypoxia during labour.- Surgical delivery.- Anaesthesia and analgesia.- Methods for Diagnosing Danger to Foetus and Placental Dysfunction.- Recording the foetal heart rate (FHR).- Functional tests.- Foetal electrocardiography.- Determination of foetal blood pH from skin of foetuss head.- The urinary oestriol level.- Vaginal cytology in the third trimester.- Alkaline phosphatase.- Human placental lactogen (HPL).- Amnioscopy.- Amniocentesis.- Examination of the amniotic fluid.- Localization of the placenta.- The oxytocin test (Smyths test).- Readiness of the uterine cervix for labour.- Ultrasound determination of the size of the foetus.- Prospects for the diagnostics of placental dysfunction and danger to the foetus.- Summing-up of the methods.- Prevention and TheralS™