Managing Medical and Obstetric Emergencies and Trauma - A Practical Approach

MANAGING MEDICAL AND OBSTETRIC EMERGENCIES AND TRAUMA: A PRACTICAL APPROACH
 
Managing Medical and Obstetric Emergencies and Trauma provides an evidence-based, structured approach to the recognition and treatment of emergencies in pregnancy. This contemporary resource provides step-by-step guidance on the knowledge, practical skills and procedures required to improve outcomes for the mother and fetus.
 
Now in its fourth edition, the text fully aligns with the mMOET course, and has been extensively reviewed and revised throughout. Lessons learned from mortality reports and national guidelines underpin the new material. This edition includes:
* New chapters on cardiac disease, neurological emergencies and human factors
* An update for obstetric teams treating pregnant trauma patients in line with modern trauma management
* Revised algorithms and new illustrations
 
Managing Medical and Obstetric Emergencies and Trauma is a vital source of practical information presented as a systematic approach to prepare the obstetric team: obstetricians, midwives, anaesthetists and emergency physicians.
 
The Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG) improves outcomes for people in life-threatening situations, anywhere along the healthcare pathway, anywhere in the world. ALSG is a leading medical education charity and has delivered advanced life support training to over 225000 clinicians in 44 countries, across 5 continents, for over 25 years.
 
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List of contents

Working Group for Fourth Edition x
 
Contributors to Fourth Edition xii
 
Working group for third edition xiv
 
Contributors to previous editions xv
 
Foreword to fourth edition xvii
 
Preface to fourth edition xviii
 
Acknowledgements xix
 
Contact details and further information xxi
 
How to use your textbook xxii
 
Abbreviations xxiii
 
Part 1 Introduction
 
1 Introduction 3
 
2 Saving mothers' lives: lessons from the Confidential Enquiries 5
 
3 Structured approach to emergencies in the obstetric patient 15
 
4 Human factors 19
 
Part 2 Recognition
 
5 Recognising the seriously sick patient 31
 
6 Shock 41
 
7 Sepsis 51
 
8 Intravenous access and fluid replacement 61
 
9 Acute cardiac disease in pregnancy 73
 
Part 3 Resuscitation
 
10 Airway management and ventilation 87
 
11 Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the pregnant patient 103
 
12 Amniotic fluid embolism 113
 
13 Venous thromboembolism 121
 
14 Resuscitation of the neonate at birth 127
 
Part 4 Trauma
 
15 Introduction to trauma 147
 
16 Domestic abuse 153
 
17 Thoracic emergencies 157
 
18 Abdominal trauma in pregnancy 165
 
19 The unconscious patient 171
 
20 Spine and spinal cord injuries 179
 
21 Musculoskeletal trauma 185
 
22 Burns 191
 
Part 5 Other obstetric medical and surgical emergencies
 
23 Abdominal emergencies 199
 
24 Diabetic emergencies 207
 
25 Neurological emergencies 213
 
26 Perinatal psychiatric illness 223
 
Part 6 Obstetric emergencies
 
27 Pre- eclampsia and eclampsia 231
 
28 Major obstetric haemorrhage 243
 
29 Caesarean section 253
 
30 Abnormally invasive placenta and retained placenta 261
 
31 Uterine inversion 267
 
32 Ruptured uterus 271
 
33 Ventouse and forceps delivery 275
 
34 Shoulder dystocia 289
 
35 Umbilical cord prolapse 297
 
36 Face presentation 301
 
37 Breech delivery and external cephalic version 305
 
38 Twin pregnancy 319
 
39 Complex perineal and anal sphincter trauma 323
 
40 Symphysiotomy and destructive procedures 331
 
41 Anaesthetic complications in obstetrics 339
 
42 Triage 355
 
43 Transfer 361
 
44 Consent matters 373
 
References and further reading 381
 
Index 393

About the author

The Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG) improves outcomes for people in life-threatening situations, anywhere along the healthcare pathway, anywhere in the world. ALSG is a leading medical education charity and has delivered advanced life support training to over 225 000 clinicians in 44 countries, across 5 continents, for over 25 years.

Summary

MANAGING MEDICAL AND OBSTETRIC EMERGENCIES AND TRAUMA: A PRACTICAL APPROACH

Managing Medical and Obstetric Emergencies and Trauma provides an evidence-based, structured approach to the recognition and treatment of emergencies in pregnancy. This contemporary resource provides step-by-step guidance on the knowledge, practical skills and procedures required to improve outcomes for the mother and fetus.

Now in its fourth edition, the text fully aligns with the mMOET course, and has been extensively reviewed and revised throughout. Lessons learned from mortality reports and national guidelines underpin the new material. This edition includes:
* New chapters on cardiac disease, neurological emergencies and human factors
* An update for obstetric teams treating pregnant trauma patients in line with modern trauma management
* Revised algorithms and new illustrations

Managing Medical and Obstetric Emergencies and Trauma is a vital source of practical information presented as a systematic approach to prepare the obstetric team: obstetricians, midwives, anaesthetists and emergency physicians.

The Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG) improves outcomes for people in life-threatening situations, anywhere along the healthcare pathway, anywhere in the world. ALSG is a leading medical education charity and has delivered advanced life support training to over 225000 clinicians in 44 countries, across 5 continents, for over 25 years.

For more information on the complete rangeof Wiley medical student and junior doctorpublishing, please visit:www.wiley.comwww.com

For more information on the Advanced LifeSupport Group, please visit: www.alsg.org

To receive automatic updates on Wiley booksand journals, join our email list. Sign up todayat www.wiley.com/emailwww.email

This new edition is also available as an e-book. For more details, please seewww.wiley.com/buy/9781119348382www.9781119348382

TITLES OF RELATED INTERESTTITLES INTEREST

Pre-Obstetric Emergency Training: A Practical Approach
2nd Edition
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Pre-Hospital Paediatric Life Support: A Practical Approach to Emergencies
3rd Edition
Advanced Life Support Group
9781118339763
October 2017

Product details

• Authors: Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG), ALSG, Rosamunde Burns, Kara Dent
• Assisted by: Rosamunde Burns (Editor), Dent (Editor), Kara Dent (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.12.2021
• EAN: 9781119645740
• ISBN: 978-1-119-64574-0
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Advanced Life Support Group
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Krankenpflege, Medizin, Notfallmedizin, Geburtshilfe, Nursing, Obstetrics, Medical Science, Notfallmedizin u. Traumatologie, Emergency Medicine & Trauma, Intensiv- u. Notfallpflege, Acute, Critical & Emergency Care