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Labor and delivery care : a practical guide / Wayne R. Cohen, Emanuel A. Friedman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Wayne R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor (Obstetrics).
- Delivery (Obstetrics).
- Childbirth.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (402 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Labor and Delivery: The hands-on guide provides practical and timely information to help guide the clinical care of women during pregnancy. An expert team of authors present the framework to integrate information obtained from hands-on evaluation of laboring women into logical matrix for decision-making and risk avoidance. By not focusing solely on explanations of the readings and usage of technology such as ultrasound and fetal monitoring, this experience-based guide to labor care concentrates on traditional skills of observation and careful physical examinations to help obstetricians care for women during labor while improving her experience of birth"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Labor and Delivery Care: A Practical Guide; Contents; Preface; How to Use This Book; 1: Communicating Effectively With Your Patient; 2: Examining Your Patient; 3: Normal Labor and Delivery; 4: Evaluating the Pelvis; 5: Diagnosing and Treating Dysfunctional Labor; 6: Managing the Third Stage; 7: Dealing with Malpositions and Deflexed Attitudes; 8: Managing Breech Presentation and Transverse Lie; 9: Avoiding and Managing Birth Canal Trauma; 10: Inducing Labor; 11: Cesarean Delivery; 12: Delivering Twins; 13: Managing Shoulder Dystocia; 14: Using Forceps and the Vacuum Extractor
- 15: Obstetric Case Studies Answers to Obstetric Case Studies; Glossary; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613300485
- 9781119971542
- 1119971543
- 9781283300483
- 1283300486
- 9781119971566
- 111997156X
- 9781119971535
- 1119971535
- OCLC:
- 760093031
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