Optimizing outcomes for women in labor at the global level requires evidence-based guidance of health workers to improve care through appropriate patient select

In light of revised recommendations for intrapartum care, this updated edition reviews best practice in all aspects of labour and delivery.

The goal of the present guideline is to consolidate guidance for effective interventions that are needed to reduce the global burden of maternal infections and

This book promotes an evidence-based paradigm of fetal heart rate monitoring during labour, with a move away from the traditional 'pattern-based' interpretation

The updated recommendations in this document on the timing of induction of labour supersede the previous WHO recommendations on this topic, in the 2018 publicat