ISBN:
9780702061646
Copyright:
2010
Publication Date:
10-22-2009
Page Count:
192
Imprint:
Churchill Livingstone
List Price:
$24.95
Midwifery Essentials: Labour - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 1st Edition
by Helen Baston, BA(Hons), MMedSci, PhD, PGDipEd, ADM, RN, RM and Jennifer Hall, EdD MSc RN RM ADM PGDip(HE) SFHEA FRCM
Elsevier eBook on VitalSource
ISBN:
9780702061646
Copyright:
2010
Publication Date:
10-22-2009
Page Count:
192
Imprint:
Churchill Livingstone
List Price:
$24.95
$24.95
Approx.182 pages
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Midwifery Essentials: Labour - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource
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ISBN: 9780702071409
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- Assessment and the role of the midwife in early labour
- The first stage of labour, monitoring maternal and fetal wellbeing
- Coping with contractions, without pharmacological pain relief
- Advantages and disadvantages of pharmacological analgesia
- Indications for induction or augmentation of labour
- The second stage of labour and the procedure for episiotomy
- The third stage of labour and the impact of different approaches
- Different methods of anaesthesia and preparation for caesarean birth
- The procedure for evidence-based perineal suturing.
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Labour Volume:
1. Introduction
2. Early assessment and admission in labour
3. The first stage of labour
4. Non-pharmalogical methods of coping with labour
5. Using water in labour
6. Pharmalogical methods of pain relief
7. Induced or accelerated labour
8. The second stage of labour
9. The third stage of labour
10. Caesarian birth
11. Perineal repair