A unique guide to the practical approach of managing high-risk pregnancies, this book combines care pathways, factfiles, and patient information leaflets into in one volume. A practical approach makes this a quick reference guide for obstetricians, and is designed to integrate the antenatal care offered for women with high-risk pregnancies.
A unique guide to the practical approach of managing high-risk pregnancies, this book combines care pathways, factfiles, and patient information leaflets into in one volume. A practical approach makes this a quick reference guide for obstetricians, and is designed to integrate the antenatal care offered for women with high-risk pregnancies.
Dr. Harini Narayan has worked in the NHS for more than three decades, 21 years of which have been as Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and Lead Obstetrician. As Senior Lecturer / Honorary Consultant in the University Hospitals of Leicester (1994-97),she also headed an EC funded multi-centric research in fetal neurology. She is Lead Obstetrician at the Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust in Swindon, UK (1997-to date), heading maternal medicine, high risk obstetrics and clinical risk management. Dr. Narayan is a preceptor/ supervisor for the RCOG ATSMs in Maternal Medicine, Advanced antenatal and labour ward practice and Honorary Consultant in Feto-Maternal Medicine in Oxford. She has received several accolades, national and international, for her work in restructuring antenatal care for high-risk pregnancies, including the Health Foundations Shine Innovation award (2010), UK All-Party Parliamentary Maternity Service award (2011), HSJ awards etc. This model for complex pregnancy care has been adapted by several maternity units and is a permanent case study in Value in Healthcare module in Harvard, USA where she has been an invited speaker.
