Society guideline links: Fetal growth restriction

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

The recommendations in the following guidelines may vary from those that appear in UpToDate topic reviews. Readers who are looking for UpToDate topic reviews should use the UpToDate search box to find the relevant content.

International

●International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG): Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of small-for-gestational-age fetus and fetal growth restriction (2020)

●ISUOG: Practice guidelines for ultrasound assessment of fetal biometry and growth (2019)

Canada

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don’t perform umbilical artery Doppler studies as a routine screening test in uncomplicated pregnancies with normal fetal growth (updated 2020)

●Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC): Clinical practice guideline on intrauterine growth restriction – Screening, diagnosis, and management (2013)

United States

●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Practice bulletin on fetal growth restriction (2021)

●Choosing Wisely: Don’t screen for fetal growth restriction (FGR) with Doppler blood flow studies (2014, updated 2021)

●ACOG: Practice advisory on updated guidance regarding fetal growth restriction (2020)

•ACOG and Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM): Committee opinion on medically indicated late-preterm and early-term deliveries (2019)

●SMFM: Consult series for the diagnosis and management of fetal growth restriction (2020)

●American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM): Practice parameter for the performance of detailed second- and third-trimester diagnostic obstetric ultrasound examinations (2019)

●ACOG and SMFM: Committee opinion on low-dose aspirin use during pregnancy (2018)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on growth disturbances – Risk of fetal growth restriction (revised 2018)

●AIUM-ACR-ACOG-SMFM-Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound (SRU): Practice parameter for the performance of standard diagnostic obstetric ultrasound examinations (2018)

●ACOG: Practice bulletin on ultrasound in pregnancy (2016)

●ACOG: Practice bulletin on antepartum fetal surveillance (2014)

●Choosing Wisely: Don’t do an inherited thrombophilia evaluation for women with histories of pregnancy loss, intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), preeclampsia and abruption (2014)

United Kingdom

●Perinatal Institute (PI): Growth assessment protocol (GAP) guidance (2020)

●Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG): Green-top guideline for the investigation and management of the small-for-gestational-age fetus, 2nd edition (2013, revised 2014)

Australia-New Zealand

●Australian Government Department of Health: Pregnancy care guidelines on fetal growth restriction and well-being (updated 2019)

●Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ) and Centre of Research Excellence in Stillbirth (Stillbirth CRE): Position statement for the detection and management of women with fetal growth restriction in singleton pregnancies (2019)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (JSOG) and Japan Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (JAOG): Obstetrics and gynecology clinical practice guidelines – Obstetrics (2020)