VALUE OF BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATIONS IN THE PRACTICE OF OBSTETRICS

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The clinical usefulness of blood pressure determinations finds better illustration nowhere than in the practice of obstetrics. The supervision of women during pregnancy, it is well known, requires systematic observation of this kind; not infrequently it gives the first warning of an impending toxemia and affords a measure of its seriousness. When conservative treatment is unavailing, the persistence of arterial hypertension becomes a strong reason for the termination of pregnancy, as a means of preventing convulsions. And, though less appreciated, there are other uses for blood pressure determinations in obstetrics which deserve an equal prominence. In the period of convalescence after eclampsia, for example, blood pressure determinations have proved to be an excellent guide to the ultimate prognosis for these patients. The clinical interpretation of autointoxication during pregnancy, in many ways as hazy as it ever was, still depends on secondary or even more remote effects of the responsible poison;

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