Obstetrics & Maternal Care Clinical Guidelines

Obstetrics and maternal care guidelines index: ACOG bulletins and clinical practice guidelines, SMFM, AIM safety bundles, WHO, and AWHONN, with sources.

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This index lists the professional-society guidelines that govern obstetric and maternal care, with the publisher, the current edition, the stated scope, and a link to the source for each. It is the source list from which this department’s guideline syntheses are being built. The parent hub is Obstetrics & Maternal Care.

Governing guidelines

Guideline	Publisher	Edition	Scope	Source
Gestational Hypertension and Preeclampsia, Practice Bulletin No. 222	ACOG	June 2020; a focused Clinical Practice Update on biomarker prediction of preeclampsia with severe features is listed by ACOG	Diagnosis and management of gestational hypertension and preeclampsia	ACOG
Clinical Guidance for the Integration of the Findings of the Chronic Hypertension and Pregnancy (CHAP) Study, Practice Advisory	ACOG	April 2022	Treatment threshold for mild chronic hypertension in pregnancy following the CHAP trial	ACOG
Postpartum Hemorrhage, Practice Bulletin No. 183	ACOG	October 2017; focused Clinical Practice Update on nonsurgical hemorrhage-control devices, October 2025	Risk factors, evaluation, prevention, and management of postpartum hemorrhage, and standardized bundles of care	ACOG
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, Practice Bulletin No. 190	ACOG	February 2018; a focused Clinical Practice Update on screening for gestational and pregestational diabetes is listed by ACOG	Screening, diagnosis, management, delivery timing, and postpartum follow-up for gestational diabetes	ACOG
Thromboembolism in Pregnancy, Practice Bulletin No. 196	ACOG	July 2018	Risk factors, diagnosis, management, and prevention of venous thromboembolism in pregnancy and the postpartum period, including anticoagulation around delivery	ACOG
First and Second Stage Labor Management, Clinical Practice Guideline No. 8	ACOG	2024	Definitions of labor and labor arrest and management of dystocia in the first and second stages of labor	ACOG
Levels of Maternal Care, Obstetric Care Consensus No. 9	ACOG and SMFM	2019, revises 2015	Classification of maternal care facilities from basic (level I) through regional perinatal health care centers (level IV) for risk-appropriate care	ACOG
SMFM Consult Series #67: Maternal Sepsis	Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine	2023	Recognition and management of sepsis during pregnancy and the postpartum period	PubMed
Obstetric Hemorrhage Patient Safety Bundle	Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health	Revised 2022	Readiness, recognition, response, reporting, and respectful care elements for obstetric hemorrhage, adaptable to facility level	AIM
Severe Hypertension in Pregnancy Patient Safety Bundle	Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health	Revised 2022	Readiness, recognition, response, reporting, and respectful care elements for severe hypertension during pregnancy and postpartum, across outpatient, emergency, and inpatient settings	AIM
WHO Recommendations: Intrapartum Care for a Positive Childbirth Experience	World Health Organization	2018	56 recommendations on care during labor and childbirth for all women and their babies, irrespective of setting	WHO
Standards for Professional Registered Nurse Staffing for Perinatal Units	AWHONN	2022	Registered nurse to patient ratios across the spectrum of care for hospitalized pregnant and postpartum patients and their newborns	AWHONN

How the guideline series are built

Each series on this site is a synthesis, not a summary of a single guideline. The relevant professional-society guidelines for a topic are read together, their recommendations integrated into one clinical reference, and every substantive statement carries a numbered, DOI-linked citation back to its source. Long syntheses are split into sequential part pages so each part loads fast and is individually citable. Every page carries a published date and a lastmod date in its metadata; when a source society issues a new or updated guideline, the affected series is revised and its lastmod advances. Each series is reviewed by clinicians before it publishes. This department’s series are forthcoming and will be linked here as they are published.

Frequently asked questions

What is in the obstetrics and maternal care guidelines index?

A table of the professional-society guidelines that govern obstetric and maternal care: ACOG practice bulletins and clinical practice guidelines on hypertensive disorders, postpartum hemorrhage, gestational diabetes, thromboembolism, and labor management, the ACOG and SMFM levels of maternal care consensus, the SMFM maternal sepsis consult, the AIM patient safety bundles, the WHO intrapartum care recommendations, and the AWHONN perinatal staffing standards, each with publisher, current edition, scope, and a link to the source.

Where are the obstetric guideline syntheses?

They are forthcoming. The site’s guideline series are multi-society syntheses with DOI-linked citations, split into sequential part pages, each carrying a published date and a lastmod date and reviewed by clinicians. This department’s series will be linked from this page and from the Obstetrics & Maternal Care hub as they publish.

Should this index be used in place of the source guidelines?

No. The index identifies the governing documents and their scope. Recommendation-level content lives in the source guidelines linked in the table and, once published, in the reviewed syntheses. ACOG revises bulletins through Clinical Practice Updates, so confirm the current version on the ACOG page. Local protocols and medical direction govern actual care.

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