Haemoglobinopathy screening is a multistep process beginning with a full blood count, ferritin assay, screening tests for haemoglobinopathies (ie, haemoglobin electrophoresis, high performance liquid chromatography, capillary electrophoresis) and assessment of clinical risk. Iron deficiency may obscure the ...
Effective implementation of rapid point of care tests (POCTs) for antenatal syphilis screening especially in settings where antenatal care attendance is high, can significantly increase screening coverage and treatment uptake. The operational challenges of introducing rapid syphilis POCTs at scale needs to...
Following ultrasonography, about 50 per cent of patients with unaffected pregnancies with positive screening tests were not offered an amniocentesis because they had a multiple pregnancy or their gestational age had been underestimated. The odds of having a fetus with an NTD among the women who had...
Objectives: Detection of small for gestational age (SGA) fetuses with risk factor screening and selective growth ultrasonography is the standard of care in Australia, but evidence regarding diagnostic accuracy is limited. We sought to id... A Wan,C Zampogna,M Reddy,... - 《Ultrasound in Obstet...
ANC covers various screening tests, diagnostic procedures and prophylactic treatments, some of which are done routinely, and others provided to the women based on identified problems and risk factors [4]. In addition, antenatal care focuses on increasing ‘access to care’ and ‘quality of care’...
If women had not been recently weighed, they consented to be weighed by the researcher as part of the screening process to ensure accurate BMI. Participation in the study was voluntary, and written informed consent was obtained from all participants. Data collection An interview guide was ...
Studies focussing only on specific components of antenatal care, such as antenatal screening tests or diagnosis of antenatal diseases were excluded from this review. The full inclusion and exclusion criteria are detailed in Table 1. Study search strategy The review question was framed using the ...
Conclusions: Our findings demonstrate substantial variation in the clinical implementation of NIPT in Australia, including in the offers of expanded screening options. After a decade of clinical use, Australian clinicians still report ongoing challenges in the clinical and equitable provision of NIPT....
routine antenatal laboratory tests andspecific screening testsThis chapter contains sections titleddoi:10.1002/9781444312904.ch8Calvin J. HobelCedars㏒inai Medical Center – UCLA, 8700 Beverly Blvd, Suite 160W, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USAJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd...
Conclusions regarding the value of the tests and routine antenatal screening are made.doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1976.tb141541.xBarbara FieldGillian MitchellCharles KerrElsevier Ltd.The Medical journal of AustraliaField, B., and Kerr, C., 1975a, Antenatal diagnosis of neural-tube defects, Lancet 2...