PPP027 - Medicines in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding with Hao Vo-Tran

Jane and Dan talk to Hao Vo-Tran, a pharmacist at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne and editor of the Royal Women’s Hospital Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Medicines Guide.

We talk to Hao about:

•  General principles in evaluating the safety of medicines in pregnancy and breastfeeding.
• Limitations of the TGA categorisation system for prescribing medicines in pregnancy
• Strategies for discussing risks with patients

Further information:

• Contact details for the Royal Women’s Hospital Medicines Information Service are on their website
• There is a full list of obstetric medicines information services in the Australian Medicines Handbook.
• Read more about Thomas Hale’s work at the Infant Risk Centre (Texas Tech University Health Sciences Centre)
• Lactmed is an open-access resource