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A panel of medical, legal, and economic experts presents a detailed analysis of the medical problems and complications that arise in obstetric and neonatal situations. Medical discussions include a review of standards of care, normal procedures, injuries to the newborn, and nurses' participation in the procedures. Legal issues focus on case evaluation, case preparation using a wide variety of litigation documents, settlement, and a review of relevant seminal cases. This updated edition contains new chapters on the use of and problems with anesthesia, risk analysis from a hospital's perspective, rehabilitation medicine and treatment, life expectancy statistics, and a psychiatrist's review of informed consent in obstetric cases.
