The labour ward handbook. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Leroy C. Edozien.
• Other Names: Edozien, Leroy C; Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain)
• Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Glossary; Bleep/crash calls; ; PART I: Approach to care; Communication; Documentation; Admission to, and discharge home from, the delivery suite; Learning from clinical incidents; Transfer of care between professionals; Reviewing what happened; Further reading for Part I; ; PART II: Normal and low-risk labour; Vaginal examination; Intravenous cannulation; Management of normal labour; Prelabour rupture of membranes at term (37-42 weeks); Management of the first stage of labour; Fetal monitoring; Fetal scalp blood sampling; Augmentation of labour; Cord-blood sampling; Epidural analgesia in labour; Management of the second stage of labour; Criteria for paediatric attendance at delivery; Management of the third stage of labour; Immediate postpartum care; Care of the newborn; Meconium-stained amniotic fluid; Neonatal resuscitation; Babies born before arrival at hospital; Episiotomy; The woman with a history of childhood sexual abuse; Use of birthing pool; Further reading for Part II; ; PART III: Abnormal and high-risk labour ; Powers, passenger, passage ; Caesarean section; Recovery of obstetric patients; High-dependency care; Failed intubation drill; Instrumental delivery; Trial of vaginal delivery after a previous caesarean section; Induction of labour; Antenatal corticosteroid therapy; Preterm prelabour rupture of membranes; Preterm uterine contractions; Deliveries at the lower margin of viability; Multiple pregnancy; Abnormal lie in labour; Occipitoposterior position; Malpresentation; Breech presentation; External cephalic version; The woman with genital mutilation; The obese woman in labour; Perineal tear; Medical conditions ; Heart disease in labour; Peripartum cardiomyopathy; Pre-eclampsia; Eclampsia; Diabetes mellitus; Asthma (acute exacerbation in labour); Epilepsy; Systemic lupus erythematosus; Other connective tissue disorders; Haemorrhage and haematological disorders ; The rhesus-negative woman; Thromboembolism prophylaxis; Acute venous thromboembolism and pulmonary embolism; Major haemoglobinopathy; Inherited coagulation disorders: haemophilia and von Willebrand's disease; Immune thrombocytopenic purpura; Thrombophilia; Gestational thrombocytopenia; Antepartum haemorrhage; Major placenta praevia; Retained placenta; Postpartum haemorrhage; Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy; Delivery of the woman at known risk of haemorrhage; Management of the woman who declines blood transfusion; Infection ; Prophylactic antibiotics; Intrapartum pyrexia; Hepatitis B and C; Intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis for group B streptococci; Genital herpes; Human immunodeficiency virus; Other obstetric emergencies ; Cervical tear and paravaginal haematoma; Rupture of the uterus; Shoulder dystocia; Cord prolapse; Anaphylaxis; Inverted uterus; Amniotic fluid embolism; Sudden maternal collapse; Latex allergy; Stillbirths and congenital abnormalities ; Checklist for fetal loss at 13-23 weeks; Intrauterine fetal demise; Mid-trimester termination of pregnancy for fetal abnormality; Protocol for medical termination of mid-trimester pregnancy; Further reading for Part III; ; Appendices ; Appendix A: Guidance for obtaining consent to treatment; Appendix B: Standards for administering blood transfusion; Index;
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (296 pages)
• Subjects: 618.4; Labor (Obstetrics) -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781853158155; 1853158151
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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