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Supporting readers to perform effectively in urgent or emergency situations that can occur in a hospital, at a birth centre or at home, this fully updated fourth edition presents the necessary knowledge and skills for student and practising midwives.
With contributions from highly experienced midwives, this practical guidebook incorporates a new chapter on legal issues for safe practice, as well as additional content on professional issues. It also includes an essential new chapter on cardiac problems, recognising that midwives are often the lead professional caring for women with cardiac anomalies, as many are undiagnosed until the emergency. The book continues to provide key, up-to-date information on high-risk medical and obstetric situations, from serious infection to uterine complications to resuscitation.
Emergencies Around Childbirth is essential reading for practising and student midwives and those who teach them.
List of contents
CHAPTER 1: AN OVERVIEW OF THE PROFESSIONAL ISSUES THAT SUPPORT SAFE PRACTICE
Kate Nash and Julie Jones
CHAPTER 2: LEGAL ISSUES IN EMERGENCY CARE
Anne O'Loghlen Pinion and Kate Nash
CHAPTER 3: MATERNAL AND NEWBORN RESUSCITATION
Jenny Brewster
CHAPTER 4: ANTEPARTUM HAEMORRHAGE
Luisa Acosta
CHAPTER 5: CARDIAC CONDITIONS
Maureen Boyle
CHAPTER 6: THROMBOEMBOLISM IN PREGNANCY
Judy Bothamley
CHAPTER 7: PRE-ECLAMPSIA AND ASSOCIATED CONDITIONS
Maureen Boyle
CHAPTER 8: MALPRESENTATIONS
Maureen Boyle
CHAPTER 9: CORD PROLAPSE
Clare Gordon
CHAPTER 10: SHOULDER DYSTOCIA
Debra Sloam
CHAPTER 11: UTERINE COMPLICATIONS
Marie Hall
CHAPTER 12: PRIMARY POSTPARTUM HAEMORRHAGE
Jessica Scoble
CHAPTER 13: AMNIOTIC FLUID EMBOLISM (ANAPHYLACTOID SYNDROME OF PREGNANCY
Maureen Boyle
CHAPTER 14: SERIOUS INFECTION
Judy Bothamley
CHAPTER 15: OTHER CAUSES OF POTENTIAL MATERNAL COLLAPSE
Andrea Aras-Payne
CHAPTER 16: BIRTH TRAUMA AND POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
Reina Fisher-van Werkhoven
CHAPTER 17: POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSIS
Reina Fisher-van Werkhoven
About the author
Maureen Boyle is Senior Lecturer in Midwifery at the University of West London, UK.
Summary
Supporting readers to perform effectively in urgent or emergency situations that can occur in a hospital, at a birth centre or at home, this fully updated fourth edition presents the necessary knowledge and skills for student and practising midwives.
With contributions from highly experienced midwives, this practical guidebook incorporates a new chapter on legal issues for safe practice, as well as additional content on professional issues. It also includes an essential new chapter on cardiac problems, recognising that midwives are often the lead professional caring for women with cardiac anomalies, as many are undiagnosed until the emergency. The book continues to provide key, up-to-date information on high-risk medical and obstetric situations, from serious infection to uterine complications to resuscitation.
Emergencies Around Childbirth is essential reading for practising and student midwives and those who teach them.
Report
"Simply stated, Emergencies Around Childbirth: A Handbook for Midwives, 4th Edition is essential reading for practicing and student midwives and those who teach them. It is also an invaluable informational resource for Women's Health Rights activists...especially and unreservedly recommended for medical school and college/university library Midwifery collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists." - Library Bookwatch
