medical conditions suggesting planned birth at obstetric unit
Last reviewed 01/2018
Medical conditions suggesting planned birth at an obstetric unit:
- cardiovascular
- confirmed cardiac disease
- hypertensive disorders
- respiratory
- asthma requiring an increase in treatment or hospital treatment
- Cystic fibrosis
- haematological
- haemoglobinopathies
- sickle-cell disease, beta-thalassaemia major
- history of thromboembolic disorders
- immune thrombocytopenia purpura or other platelet disorder or platelet count below 100,000
- Von Willebrand's disease
- bleeding disorder in the woman or unborn baby
- atypical antibodies which carry a risk of haemolytic disease of the newborn
- haemoglobinopathies
- infective
- risk factors associated with group B streptococcus whereby antibiotics in labour would be recommended
- hepatitis B/C with abnormal liver function tests
- carrier of/infected with HIV
- toxoplasmosis - women receiving treatment
- current active infection of chicken pox/rubella/genital herpes in the woman or baby
- tuberculosis under treatment
- immune
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- scleroderma
- endocrine
- hyperthyroidism
- diabetes
- renal
- abnormal renal function
- renal disease requiring supervision by a renal specialist
- neurological
- epilepsy
- myasthenia gravis
- previous cerebrovascular accident
- gastrointestinal
- liver disease associated with current abnormal liver function tests
- psychiatric
- psychiatric disorder requiring current inpatient care
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