Key Concepts Female trauma patients of reproductive potential should be screened for pregnancy and assumed to be pregnant until proven otherwise. Management of life- and limb-threatening injury in the mother comes first. Saving the mother provides the best chance of…
Key Concepts Chemically induced birth defects are responsible for approximately 1% to 3% of anomalous births. Gestational age is crucial in determination of the impact of any given exposure, especially during organogenesis (days 21–56 of fetal life), when major body…
Background Of the more than 3.9 million births in the United States in 2013, 98.6% were delivered in a hospital setting. Although a physician was present for 91.7% of these births, the percentage of these births that occur in the…