High-Risk Pregnancies - Maternal-Fetal Medicine
The maternal-fetal medicine team at Scott & White's Division of Women's Health Services is dedicated to providing exceptional perinatal and neonatal care. Scott & White is a Level III facility serving as the primary referral facility for the surrounding 21 counties.
With close to 50 years combined experience in maternal-fetal medicine, Steven R. Allen, MD, Nathan S. Drever, MD, and Richard O. Jones, MD are dedicated to providing innovative and skillful care to each patient. They are joined by a highly trained support staff, maternal-fetal nurses, consultative subspecialists and a team of neonatologists to care for the baby upon arrival.
Their patient care emphases include:
- High-risk and complicated pregnancies
- Utilizing innovative diagnostic and therapeutic technologies and procedures
- Pre-conception counseling and evaluation
- Multidisciplinary approach
Scott & White's maternal-fetal medicine see 1,600 patients and referrals each year, and the neonatal nursery provides tertiary neonatal care for up to 56 newborns. The obstetrics, maternal-fetal medicine and neonatology programs collaborate to provide a multidisciplinary approach for high-risk mothers and babies.
Specialized Services
- Comprehensive ultrasonography
- Antenatal diagnosis
- Amniocentesis
- First trimester screening
- Maternal serum screening for birth defects and chromosomal abnormalities (aneuploidy)
- Percutaneous umbilical cord sampling (PUBS)
- Fetal echocardiography
- Doppler assessment of the fetus
- Fetal blood transfusion
- Genetic counseling
- Antepartum fetal assessment
- Biophysical profile
- Nonstress test
- Amniotic fluid index
- Oxytocin contraction stress test
- High-risk pregnancy evaluation and management
- Diabetes
- Preterm labor
- Recurrent miscarriage
- Cardiac disease
- Hypertension
- Preeclampsia
- Multiple gestation
- Incompetent cervix
- Birth defect
