Research progress on nursing care in high-risk pregnancies / 中国基层医药

ABSTRACT

A pregnancy is considered high-risk when there are potential complications that may lead to dystocia or endanger the mother and unborn baby. Compared with women with a normal pregnancy, women with a high-risk pregnancy have a higher risk for poor pregnancy outcomes, which have a great impact on the maternal and infant prognosis or their families. Therefore, targeted clinical nursing care can be carried out in women who have a high-risk pregnancy to improve the prognosis of mothers and infants. Analyzing the risk factors that induce a high-risk pregnancy and actively reducing risk factors are particularly critical to achieving a good prognosis. Nursing care of women with a high-risk pregnancy should be performed based on evidence-based medicine after comprehensively analyzing the risk of each factor and weighing the pros and cons of related nursing care. Nursing care should have a clinical application value in high-risk pregnancies. This paper reviews the research advance in nursing care in high-risk pregnancies from the perspectives including risk factors, characteristics, the importance of nursing care, and the current nursing status.