GOOD PRACTICE AND MALPRACTICE IN LABOR AND DELIVERY

Professional responsibility, “good practice and malpractice” in obstetrics is one
of the major areas of medical-legal litigation. To date, however, there are no texts
that deal simultaneously with both the critical aspects of labor and delivery and
legal aspects. This text, for the first time, brings together both topics. It is the only
one that responds to the need to provide a guide that indicates what to do and
what not to do in the assistance of labor and delivery. It guides in the recognition
of the negative aspects of management (bad practice) that are often based on
traditional processes, on scientific assumptions never validated.