Oct 19th, 2018 - The objective is to provide guidance for pregnant women and obstetric care and exercise professionals on prenatal physical activity. The outcomes evaluated were maternal, fetal or neonatal morbidity, or fetal mortality during and following pregnancy. Literature was retrieved through searches of MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Cont...

Aug 31st, 2015 - 2015 ESC Guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death: The Task Force for the Management of Patients with Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Endorsed by: Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC).|2015|Priori SG,Blomström-Lu...

May 20th, 2008 - ASMBS Allied Health Nutritional Guidelines for the Surgical Weight Loss Patient.|2008| ,Aills L,Blankenship J,Buffington C,Furtado M,|adverse effects,etiology,prevention & control,standards,metabolism,surgery,standards,physiology,

Oct 22nd, 2012 - There is good evidence that fertilization and pregnancy rates are similar to IVF/ICSI with fresh oocytes when vitrified/warmed oocytes are used as part of IVF/ICSI for young women. Although data are limited, no increase in chromosomal abnormalities, birth defects, and developmental deficits has been reported in the offspring born from cryopreserved oocytes when compared to pregnancies from conv...

Mar 23rd, 2017 - Labor causes severe pain for many women. There is no other circumstance in which it is considered acceptable for an individual to experience untreated severe pain that is amenable to safe intervention while the individual is under a physician's care. Many women desire pain management during labor and delivery, and there are many medical indications for analgesia and anesthesia during labor and ...

May 7th, 2016 - To make evidence-based recommendations for the postpartum management of women and their newborns, regardless of the mode of delivery. Systematic review of articles from the PubMed database and the Cochrane Library and of recommendations from the French and foreign societies or colleges of obstetricians. Because breast-feeding is associated with reductions in neonatal, infantile, and childhood m...

Oct 18th, 2016 - To update the 2002 version of "Clinical practice guidelines for sustained neuromuscular blockade in the adult critically ill patient." A Task Force comprising 17 members of the Society of Critical Medicine with particular expertise in the use of neuromuscular-blocking agents; a Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation expert; and a medical writer met via teleconference...

Feb 10th, 2011 - Practice guidelines for preoperative fasting and the use of pharmacologic agents to reduce the risk of pulmonary aspiration: application to healthy patients undergoing elective procedures: an updated report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Committee on Standards and Practice Parameters.|2011| ,|therapeutic use,therapeutic use,therapeutic use,physiology,metabolism,therapeutic use,sta...

Sep 16th, 2015 - Infective Endocarditis in Childhood: 2015 Update: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.|2015|Baltimore RS,Gewitz M,Baddour LM,Beerman LB,Jackson MA,|physiology,blood,therapeutic use,complications,microbiology,diagnosis,microbiology,therapy,standards,complications,diagnosis,microbiology,therapy,complications,surgery,adverse effects,microbiology,methods,standards,diagnosis,e...

Nov 25th, 2008 - This Practice Committee Opinion reviews the published literature relating to the potential benefits, pitfalls, and risks of blastocyst culture.

Feb 22nd, 2012 - To evaluate whether spinal cord intraoperative monitoring (IOM) with somatosensory and transcranial electrical motor evoked potentials (EPs) predict adverse surgical outcomes. A panel of experts reviewed the results of a comprehensive literature search and identified published studies relevant to the clinical question. These studies were classified according to the evidence-based methodology of...

Sep 23rd, 2013 - The following intraoperative MEP recommendations can be made on the basis of current evidence and expert opinion: (1) Acquisition and interpretation should be done by qualified personnel. (2) The methods are sufficiently safe using appropriate precautions. (3) MEPs are an established practice option for cortical and subcortical mapping and for monitoring during surgeries risking motor injury in...

May 1st, 2014 - This consensus statement was commissioned in 2012 by the Board of Directors of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology to improve maternal resuscitation by providing health care providers critical information (including point-of-care checklists) and operational strategies relevant to maternal cardiac arrest. The recommendations in this statement were designed to address the challe...

Oct 15th, 2012 - The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) Sleep Apnea Definitions Task Force reviewed the current rules for scoring respiratory events in the 2007 AASM Manual for the Scoring and Sleep and Associated Events to determine if revision was indicated. The goals of the task force were (1) to clarify and simplify the current scoring rules, (2) to review evidence for new monitoring technologies rel...

Nov 25th, 2008 - This Educational Bulletin will review the various viral etiologies of hepatitis, their mode of transmission, and implications for infertile couples, pregnant women, and health care workers.

Dec 16th, 2014 - Profound muscle weakness during and after critical illness is termed intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICUAW). To develop diagnostic recommendations for ICUAW. A multidisciplinary expert committee generated diagnostic questions. A systematic review was performed, and recommendations were developed using the Grading, Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) approach....

Aug 7th, 2008 - The evaluation and management of thrombocytopenia is a frequent challenge for neonatologists, as it affects 22-35% of infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit. Multiple disease processes can cause neonatal thrombocytopenia, and these can be classified as those inducing early thrombocytopenia (< or =72 h of life) and those inducing late-onset thrombocytopenia (>72 h). Most cases of n...

Jun 16th, 2010 - Despite recent advances in the perinatal management of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), controversies still exist. We report the updated recommendations of a European panel of expert neonatologists who had developed consensus guidelines after critical examination of the most up-to-date evidence in 2007. These updated guidelines are based upon published evidence up to the end of 200...

Aug 13th, 2013 - This parameter was developed by the Joint Task Force on Practice Parameters, representing the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI); the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (ACAAI); and the Joint Council of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. The AAAAI and the ACAAI have jointly accepted responsibility for establishing "Environmental assessment and remediation: a pract...

Sep 29th, 2009 - Congenital or acquired hearing loss in infants and children has been linked with lifelong deficits in speech and language acquisition, poor academic performance, personal-social maladjustments, and emotional difficulties. Identification of hearing loss through neonatal hearing screening, regular surveillance of developmental milestones, auditory skills, parental concerns, and middle-ear status ...