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D P SWARTZ

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PubMed1964

A SIMPLE IMMUNOLOGIC TEST FOR PREGNANCY.

Experience with a latex agglutination-inhibition slide test for human chorionic gonadotrophin which allows pregnancy to be diagnosed in three minutes is described. Among 350 tests performed, 115 were in patients who presented with some complication of a presumed pregnancy, and 132 patients presented diagnostic problems in which pregnancy was to be ruled out. Clinical follow-up confirmed the accuracy of the test and its usefulness in the management of such clinical problems. In addition, among 48 patients with normal pregnancy between 42 and 120 days in duration, the only false-negative test was in one patient who was exactly 42 days from her last normal menstrual period.

Body Fluids↗
PubMed1962

Gestational and perinatal factors in brain damage.

Until relatively recently, studies in this field emphasized the physical events surrounding the transfer of the infant from the uterus to the bassinette. Current investigators are devoting much more attention to intrauterine and early neonatal environment. This is not to say that mechanical factors should be forgotten or that they are unimportant, but that there seem to be factors as yet unknown which in modern practice may make a significantly greater contribution to the problem of brain damage than does direct obstetric trauma.Genetic, developmental and infective factors have been reviewed. The interrelated factors of prematurity, anoxia, trauma and brain hemorrhage have been discussed. The contribution which traumatic obstetrics has made to the problem of brain damage can be minimized by general application of standards of obstetric care and practice which are now well established. The modern practice of obstetrics must extend its active interest far beyond the goal of a living mother and child-the future health of both must be its concern. Obstetrics must be considered as an opportunity to practise a philosophy of preventive medical care in the broadest sense.

Birth Injuries↗