• Stillbirth And Neonatal Death Society (SANDS)
• Plymouth SANDS
• National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA)
• Action Against Medical Accidents (AVMA)
• NPSA Being Open Policy Documents
• Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services (AIMS)
• Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)
• Kings Fund - maternity enquiry
• Intrapartum NICE guidance
• NHS litigation authority - making amends

Perinatal Issues

• RCOG safer childbirth report
• RCOG caesarean guidance
• RCOG CTG algorithm
• RCOG Operative vaginal delivery guidance
• RCOG risk management for maternity
• RCOG induction of labour
• Canadian Guidelines for Maternity & Birth Care
• CEMAC perinatal mortality 2008
• CEMACH 8th annual report
• CESDI Sudden Unexpected Death In Infancy Report
• The tragic human cost of NHS baby blunders Society The Observer
• hyperstimulation rate - PubMed Results
• Intrapartum-Related Deaths 500 Missed Opportunities
• Maternal & Child Nursing
• WHO - maternal complications in pregnancy & childbirth

General Resources

• Cochrane Reviews - by sub-topics ‘Neonatal’
• Hakia - includes a medical semantic search
• Clinical Risk
• Healthcare Commission
• Pediatrics General Medicine Articles

Derriford Hospital, Plymouth

• Derriford Hospital Plymouth
• SW NHS serious untoward incident reporting
• PCT Serious Untoward Incident Policy
• PCT Being Open Policy
• News about Derriford

Group B Strep

• RCOG - GBS guidelines
• BMJ - GBS risk factors
• CDC - Group B Strep
• Early Onset Pneumonia
• GBS guidelines
• GBS odds ratio paper
• GBS pathogenesis
• Group B Strep (GBS) - from Ronnie Falcão’s Midwife Archives
• Group B Strep Infection - March of Dimes
• Group B strep infection leads to neonatal death — OBG Management
• Australian EOGBS protocol
• meconium and GBS growth
• Vaginal chlorhexidine during labour to prevent early-onset neonatal group B streptococcal infection
• CDC chlorhexidine wipes investigation
• membrane stripping & GBS contamination
• Membrane sweeping and GBS A litigious combination — OBG Management

Acidosis, sepsis & shock

• Useful sepsis overview
• causes & consequences of foetal acidosis
• Australian acidosis protocol
• circulation disturbance in perinatal sepsis
• eMedicine - Neonatal Sepsis Article by Ann L Anderson-Berry
• neonatal septic shock reversal
• cardiac indicators of sepsis & mortality
• neonatal resuscitation guidelines
• Neonatal Resuscitation
• CORD BLOOD GASES TO DETERMINE UMBILICAL ARTERY ACID-BASE ANALYSIS
• neonatal umbilical pH
• paired umbilical samples guidelines
• Pediatric Shock
• respiratory distress management
• sepsis and oxygen demand
• septic shock - state of the art

Hypoxia

• Early neonatal mortality, asphyxia related deaths, and timing of low risk births in Hesse, Germany, 1990-8 observational study
• Evaluation of the newborn’s blood gas status — Brouillette and Waxman 43 (1) 215 — Clinical Chemistry
• foetal monitoring patterns
• Early neonatal mortality and timing of low risk births British Medical Journal Find Articles at BNET
• Electronic Fetal Monitoring review
• fuzzy logic acid-base analysis
• Interpretation of the Electronic Fetal Heart Rate During Labor - May 1, 1999 - American Academy of Family Physicians
• hypoxia and thrombosis
• oxygen satn during first 24 hrs
• Perinatal Asphyxia Fetal Hypoxaemia Hypoxia ppt Presentation
• [Birth asphyxia and hypoxic ischemic encephalopath...[Laeknabladid. 2007] - PubMed Result
• [Newborn asphyxia at term during delivery] [J Gynecol Obstet Biol Reprod (Paris). 2003] - PubMed Result

SubGaleal Haemorrhage

• Public Health Advisory Need for CAUTION When Using Vacuum Assisted Delivery Devices
• Birth Brain Injury
• head injuries
• Iranian SGH paper
• Retraction Respiration & hypovolemia
• more hypovolemia
• Neonatal SGH & risks…[Pediatr Int. 2007] - PubMed Result
• Neonatal subgaleal hemorrhage diagnosis and management — Davis 164 (10) 1452 — Canadian Medical Association Journal
• Neonatal Subgaleal Hemorrhage Following Vacuum Extraction Delivery
• Reducing the medicolegal risk of vacuum extraction — OBG Management
• SGH and shock
• SGH diagnosis & management
• SGH paper review
• Subgaleal hematoma the need for increased awareness of risk Journal of Family Practice Find Articles at BNET
• ventouse & SGH