• ISBN13: 9780824703783
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Medical, Nursing and Health Sciences
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Mar Dekker
• Publication Date: April 6, 2001
• Pages: 849
• Original Price: GBP 123.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1500 grams

About the Book This totally revised and expanded reference presents a problem-based approach to the teratogenic risks of exposure to drugs, chemicals, viruses, and radiation during pregnancy-containing updated material on treatment programs and management approaches, as well as systematic reviews and meta-analyses of specific xenobiotics. <br>Offers entirely new features such as clinical case studies at the beginning of most chapters, as well as end-of-chapter solutions <br>Summarizing recentlarge-scale prospective studies on the safety of drugs in pregnancy, initiated by the Motherisk Program in Toronto in collaboration with several American services, the Third Edition of Maternal-Fetal Toxicology provides <br><li>the latest analysis on alcohol consumption during pregnancy and the diagnosis of fetal alcohol syndrome<br></li><li>a guide for herbal products in pregnancy<br></li><li>timely information for the evaluation of fetal safety in chemical industries<br></li><li>up-to-the-minute treatment for epilepsy and other chronic conditions in pregnancy<br></li><li>current management of the neonatal abstinence syndrome<br></li><li>modern uses of herbal medicine in pregnancy and during lactation<br></li><li>and more <br>Written by a multidisciplinary team of experts in the field, Maternal-Fetal Toxicology, Third Edition, is a practical and well-researched reference for all obstetricians/gynecologists, toxicologists, family physicians, pharmacologists, pediatricians, nurses, pharmacists, poison control specialists, geneticists, and upper-level undergraduate, graduate, and medical school students in these disciplines.</li>