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intrapartum care
Fast, easy summary view of NICE guidance on 'intrapartum care'
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Intrapartum care: management and delivery of care to women in labour
The advice in the NICE guideline covers:
- healthy women who are giving birth at 37-42 weeks (known as 'term').
It does not specifically look at women
- who are giving birth before 37 weeks
- whose unborn baby is not growing properly
- who have conditions such as pre-eclampsia (high blood pressure during pregnancy) or diabetes, or infections such as group B streptococcus, HIV or genital herpes virus
- who are having more than one baby
- who need a caesarean section
This guideline is an update of the Electronic fetal monitoring (Guideline C) issued in May 2001 and a partial update of Induction of labour (Guideline D) issued in June 2001
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Other information
NICE Pathways
This guidance has been incorporated into the following NICE Pathways, along with other related guidance and products.
Visit the NICE Pathway: intrapartum care
How this guidance was produced
Background information
This page was last updated: 04 October 2012
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Guideline formats
- Web format
- Quick reference guide (PDF)
- NICE Guideline (PDF)
- Full Guideline
- CG55 Gofalu am ferched a'u babanod yn ystod y cyfnod esgor: deall canllawiau NICE (fformat MS Word)
Intrapartum care
Information for the public
Guideline review
Consultation on review proposal with stakeholders: 17 January 2011 - 30 January 2011
Review decision:
Following the recent review recommendation, an update of this guideline is currently in the process of being scheduled into the work programme. Details of any update will be available on the guidelines in development webpage.
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Patient
The summary of the key recommendations in the guidance written for patients, carers and those with little medical knowledge and may be used in local patient information leaflets.
Quick Reference Guide
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NICE Guideline
The published NICE clinical guideline, contains the recommendations for health professionals and NHS bodies.
Full Guideline
The published full clinical guideline for specialists with background, evidence, recommendations and methods used.