Thursday, August 8, 2013

IDDM

• Women with a normally grown fetus should be offered elective induction of labour, or CS if indicated, after 38 completed weeks.
• Women with diabetes should be advised to give birth in hospitals where advanced neonatal resuscitation skills are available 24 hours a day.

• During labour, capillary blood glucose should be monitored hourly and maintained at 4 - 7 mmol/litre.

• If general anaesthesia is used for the birth, blood glucose should be monitored every 30 minutes from induction of anaesthesia until after the baby is born and the woman is fully conscious.

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