Labour midwifery skills : survival guide / Alison Edwards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, Alison, 1966- author.

Series:

Nursing & health survival guides.

Nursing & health survival guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor (Obstetrics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 67 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

Summary:

"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. Used as a platform for wider reading, this text is an ideal reference point for any student or professionals involved with the care of childbearing women"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-42429-9

0-429-75456-6

0-429-75457-4

9780429424298

OCLC:

1152391812