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Specialty resources

This page signposts to useful links elsewhere, split by individual specialties:

Cardiology South Wales and South West Congenital Heart Disease Network website and resources
Pregnancy (swswchd.co.uk)

ESC guidance
ESC Guidelines on Cardiovascular Diseases during Pregnancy (Management of) (escardio.org)

NICE guidance
Recommendations | Intrapartum care for women with existing medical conditions or obstetric complications and their babies | Guidance | NICE
Respiratory Asthma

Asthma | British Thoracic Society | Better lung health for all (brit-thoracic.org.uk)
Gastroenterology Inflammatory bowel disease
British Society of Gastroenterology consensus guidelines on the management of inflammatory bowel disease in adults (bmj.com)

Liver disease
EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines on the management of liver diseases in pregnancy – Journal of Hepatology (journal-of-hepatology.eu)
Renal Kidney disease
Clinical practice guideline on pregnancy and renal disease | BMC Nephrology | Full Text (biomedcentral.com)
Rheumatology Rheumatology drugs
British Society for Rheumatology guideline on prescribing drugs in pregnancy and breastfeeding: immunomodulatory anti-rheumatic drugs and corticosteroids | Rheumatology | Oxford Academic (oup.com)
Diabetes and endocrinology Obesity
Care of Women with Obesity in Pregnancy (wiley.com)

Diabetes
Overview | Diabetes in pregnancy: management from preconception to the postnatal period | Guidance | NICE
Haematology Sickle cell disease
British Journal of Haematology | Wiley Online Library

VTE prevention
Reducing the Risk of Thrombosis and Embolism during Pregnancy and the Puerperium (Green-top Guideline No. 37a) | RCOG

VTE acute management
Thrombosis and Embolism during Pregnancy and the Puerperium: Acute Management (Green-top Guideline No. 37b) | RCOG
Neurology Multiple sclerosis
UK consensus on pregnancy in multiple sclerosis: ‘Association of British Neurologists’ guidelines (bmj.com)

Epilepsy register
UK Epilepsy & Pregnancy (epilepsyandpregnancy.co.uk)

MS register
Home | UK MS Register
Infectious disease HIV
BHIVA guidelines for the management of HIV in pregnancy and postpartum 2018 (2020 third interim update)

Malaria treatment
The Diagnosis and Treatment of Malaria in Pregnancy (Green-top Guideline No. 54b) | RCOG

Malaria prevention
Malaria in Pregnancy, Prevention (Green-top Guideline No. 54A) | RCOG
Dermatology Pruritus
Itch in pregnancy | Health topics A to Z | CKS | NICE
General pregnancy-related conditions Hypertensive disorders
Overview | Hypertension in pregnancy: diagnosis and management | Guidance | NICE

Medication in pregnancy

The BUMPS website is an excellent resource for information about medications in pregnancy for healthcare professionals and the general public. It is provided by the UK Teratology Information Service (UKTIS). UKTIS answers enquiries from health professionals (e.g. doctors, nurses, midwives) on the effects on the unborn baby of medicines and other chemicals that the mother may use or otherwise be exposed to.

Principles of Care documents

The following documents have been produced by South West Maternal Medicine Network:

 

 

 

 

 

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