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Obstetrics is a unique area of healthcare, in that the vast majority of situations in pregnancy and childbirth have normal outcome, even when there is no intervention from healthcare professionals. However, serious complications do occur in a smaller number of cases, and increased knowledge on their diagnosis and treatment has made a tremendous difference to maternal and fetal outcomes over the last 200 years. One could even say that obstetrics is somewhat a victim of its own success, as improvements have been so striking that much of society has erroneously perceived adverse outcomes to have disappeared and, when they occur, frequently judges them to be due to malpractice.
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Ayres-de-Campos, D. (2017). Introduction. In: Obstetric Emergencies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41656-4_1
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