Pregnancy complicated by diabetes is a medical challenge that can be minimized through a program of expert protocols and patient partnerships. This newly revised edition presents a complete package of these protocols that can help produce healthy infants in pregnancies complicated by type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes.
Topics include:
--Pre and Inter-pregnancy counceling, assessment, and management
--Contraception in diabetes and prediabetes
--Nutrition management of preexisting diabetes
--Risk assessment, fetal surveillance and delivery in prenancies complicated by diabetes
--Neonatal care of infants of mothers with diabetes
--Management of gestational diabetes
--Diagnostic testing and fetal surveillance
--Use of insulin in pregnancy and assessment of glycemic control
--Postpartum concerns for women with diabetes
