Pregnancy Testing

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Jackson S, Hunter J, Van Norman GA. Ethical Principles Do Not Support Mandatory Preanesthesia Pregnancy Screening Tests: A Narrative Review. Anesth Analg. 2024 May 1;138(5):980-991. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000006669. Epub 2023 Oct 6. PMID: 37801601.

Balinskaite V, Bottle A, Sodhi V, et al. The Risk of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Following Nonobstetric Surgery During Pregnancy: Estimates From a Retrospective Cohort Study of 6.5 Million Pregnancies. Annals of surgery 2017;266(2):260-266. (In eng). DOI: 10.1097/sla.0000000000001976.

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, opinion ASoACoop. Nonobstetric surgery during surgery. Committee opinion; number 775' April 2019, Updated 2019. (https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2019/04/nonobstetric-surgery-during-pregnancy).

Aylin P, Bennett P, Bottle A, et al. Health Services and Delivery Research. Estimating the risk of adverse birth outcomes in pregnant women undergoing non-obstetric surgery using routinely collected NHS data: an observational study. Southampton (UK): NIHR Journals Library Copyright © Queen’s Printer and Controller of HMSO 2016. This work was produced by Aylin et al. under the terms of a commissioning contract issued by the Secretary of State for Health. This issue may be freely reproduced for the purposes of private research and study and extracts (or indeed, the full report) may be included in professional journals provided that suitable acknowledgement is made and the reproduction is not associated with any form of advertising. Applications for commercial reproduction should be addressed to: NIHR Journals Library, National Institute for Health Research, Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre, Alpha House, University of Southampton Science Park, Southampton SO16 7NS, UK.; 2016.

American Society of Anesthesiologists Committee on Quality Management and Departmental Administration. Pregnancy testing prior to anesthesia and surgery.

Cole LA. The hCG assay or pregnancy test. Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine 2012;50(4):617-30. (In eng). DOI: 10.1515/cclm.2011.808