Emergency Department Management of Obstetric Complications

Joelle Borhart, M.D. is Assistant Program Director and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Georgetown University Hospital and Washington Hospital Center, where she has received a number of faculty honors. She gives frequent talks on obstetric emergencies and medical education and will be the Pre-Conference Course Director for ACEP 2016.

• Complications of Assisted Reproductive Technology.-  Early Pregnancy Complications.- Emergency Department Ultrasound in Pregnancy.- Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy.- Bleeding in Late Pregnancy.- Preterm Labor and Premature Rupture of Membranes.- Trauma in Pregnancy.- Imaging in Pregnancy.- Abdominal Pain in Pregnancy.- Cardiovascular Disasters in Pregnancy.- The Coding Pregnant Patient.- Precipitious Delivery.- Postpartum Hemorrhage.

“The goal is to ‘provide an evidence‐based, practical approach to the wide spectrum of obstetric complications an emergency physician’ will manage in the emergency department. … The book meets the authors’ goals. The audience is emergency clinicians in all practice settings. It is written at a level that would certainly be appropriate for attending physicians, midlevel providers, and medical students. The group of more than 20 authors comes primarily from emergency departments at two large hospitals.” (Michael D. Zwank, Doody’s Book Reviews, September, 2017)