A woman is evaluated by psychiatry on postpartum day 2 after staff noticed her talking to the mirror in her room and not showing affection to her newborn child. Case shows ethical decisions made when managing mental illness during pregnancy.
Experts discuss strategies to reduce the maternal mortality gap by implementing implicit bias training and reevaluating clinical guidelines and algorithms.
Mifepristone is a progestin antagonist indicated, in a regimen with misoprostol, for the medical termination of intrauterine pregnancy through 70 days gestation.
Dr. Ehrlich reviews the evidence of 3 recent studies that evaluate the risk of fracking and health outcomes in infants, management of hypertension in pregnancy, and cardiac risk of eye surgery.
Case involving a 2-rod subdermal contraceptive implant mistaken for a 1-rod device demonstrates the importance of delivering culturally competent care.
The recommendations were give a “D” grade indicating that there is moderate or high certainty that the harms associated with hormone therapy use in these settings outweigh any potential benefits.