New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules
Mid - Midwifery Council
Chapter Mid 500 - SCOPE OF MIDWIFERY PRACTICE
Part Mid 502 - SCOPE OF PRACTICE
Section Mid 502.10 - Conditions Requiring Transfer From Midwifery Care
Universal Citation: NH Admin Rules Mid 502.10
Current through Register No. 12, March 21, 2024
(a) A midwife shall transfer to the care of a physician with experience in the active practice of obstetrics or a CNM any client who appears to have or develops any of the following conditions during the prenatal period:
(1) Anemia measured by hemoglobin of less
than 10g or a hematocrit of less than 30% unresolved by 37 weeks'
gestation;
(2) Multiple
fetuses;
(3) Malpresentation of the
fetus, including presentation in breech position, that is not resolved before
the onset of labor;
(4)
Confirmation by obstetric ultrasound that the fetus is small for gestational
age;
(5) Indications that the fetus
of more than 12 weeks' gestation has died in utero;
(6) Rh sensitization with positive antibody
titre;
(7) Preeclampsia;
(8) Placenta previa;
(9) Placental abruption;
(10) Onset of labor prior to 37 weeks;
or
(11) Herpes on the cervix or
vulva or in the vaginal mucosa that is active at the onset of labor and cannot
be isolated by covering it.
(b) Upon transfer of the client's care pursuant to paragraph (a) the midwife shall give the health care provider to whose care the client is transferred a copy of the client's chart.
#7759, eff 9-7-02
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