Labour Midwifery Skills: Survival Guide

ISBN-13: 9781138388895 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 68 str.

Alison Edwards

Opis

This pocket-sized book, presented in an easy to follow format, is designed as tool for students and professionals to carry in any setting, providing a quick reference guide to supporting women during labour.

Spis treści

Anatomy.  Apgar scores.  Birth environment – promoting normality.  Caesarean Section (LSCS).  Catheterisation.  Cord bloods.  CTG interpretation.  Diabetic women in labour.  Degrees of Tears.  Deteriorating conditions.  Emergencies.  Emergency birth.  Epidurals.  Episiotomy.  Examination of the placenta.  Fetal blood sampling.  Home birth preparation.  Initial baby check.  Instrumental birth.  Mechanism of normal labour (LOA).  Monitoring maternal and fetal well-being in labour.  Obesity and labour.  Pain relief.  Perineal repair.  Positions for labour and birth.  Resuscitation equipment.  Signs of transition.  Stages and phases of labour.  Third stage management.  Vaginal assessments.  Vaginal birth after caesarean (trial of scar).  Waterbirth.  Stillbirth and neonatal death.