Trauma and Birth - A Handbook for Maternity Staff

Our book aims to provide those working in the maternity services, including those in general practices, with an understanding of what it means to be on the receiving end of care.

List of contents

1.The experience of traumatic birth 2.Person-centred care 3.Birth plans 4.Prolonged labour and shoulder dystocia 5.Instrumental delivery 6.Perineal, anal sphincter and bladder injury 7.Surgical considerations including haemorrhage and blood transfusion 8.ICU and anaesthesia 9.Mental health 10.Debriefing and serious incident reporting 11.Managing the next pregnancy and delivery 12.Trauma to staff

About the author

Sheila Broderick qualified as a Social Worker in 1977. She initially worked at a therapeutic community for people with drug addiction. She then worked for Greenwich Mind, mental health charity, before she left to work at University Lewisham Hospital as a Women's Health Counsellor. Her work at the hospital was always woman-centred, with kindness, support and an acknowledgement of each person's uniqueness at its heart. When she retired in 2013 she was Senior Women's Health Counsellor.
Ruth Cochrane has been a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist since 1997. She is a busy generalist and is regularly to be found on the labour ward. She is particularly interested in high-risk obstetrics, major benign gynaecological surgery, the management of perinatal loss and undergraduate education. She runs a postnatal debrief clinic for women and their partners who have had traumatic births.

Summary

Our book aims to provide those working in the maternity services, including those in general practices, with an understanding of what it means to be on the receiving end of care.

Product details

• Authors: Sheila Broderick, Sheila Cochrane Broderick, Broderick Sheila, Ruth Cochrane
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367420406
• ISBN: 978-0-367-42040-6
• No. of pages: 108
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Medicine: general issues, MEDICAL / Gynecology & Obstetrics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, MEDICAL / Nursing / Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health, MEDICAL / Nursing / Home & Community Care, Gynaecology and obstetrics, Gynaecology & obstetrics, Midwifery, Community nursing, Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services