Clinical Guidelines
Clinical practice guideline for the management of women who report decreased fetal movements
Using an evidence-based approach, this guideline aims to improve the management and outcome of care for women with DFM. The guideline covers 2 key areas, namely information provided to pregnant women regarding DFM, and management protocols for clinicians caring for women presenting with DFM. You can download the current guideline from here.
The guideline has been reviewed by the Fetal Movement Study Group in collaboration with ANZSA and will be updated in 2016.
PSANZ Clinical Practice Guideline for Perinatal Mortality
The main purposes of the guideline is to enable a high quality systematic approach to the provision of care around the time of a perinatal death including investigation and audit and bereavement care for parents across Australia and New Zealand (ANZ).
The guideline is currently under review and an updated version will be available in 2016.
Chapter 1 - Overview and summary of recommendations
Chapter 2 - Institutional perinatal mortality audit
Chapter 3 - Psychological and social aspects of perinatal bereavement
Chapter 4 - Perinatal post-mortem examination
Chapter 5 - Investigation of stillbirths