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The focus of the third edition of Best Practice in Labour and Delivery is on improvement of technical and non-technical skills, multidisciplinary team working, high quality training and audit with the goal of improving safety and quality of intrapartum care. The editor and authors from a range of international backgrounds have decades of hands-on experience in managing high risk labour wards and promoting both multidisciplinary working and high-quality training. The latest evidence from the Cochrane library and the WHO, NICE and RCOG guidelines have been incorporated into chapters spanning the stages of labour and delivery and the complications that may arise. Chapters also provide practical advice on risk management, triage and prioritisation, and non-technical skills such as leadership and decision making. The well-illustrated book is an essential read for practicing obstetricians, trainees, midwives, neonatologists, anaesthetists and obstetric physicians.
List of contents
1. Pelvic and fetal cranial anatomy and the stages and mechanism of labour K. Muhunthan; 2. The first stage of labour Ann Wright and Lay Kok Tan; 3. Analgesia and anaesthesia in labour and delivery Arani Pillai and Alice Bunce; 4. Intrapartum fetal monitoring Sabaratnam Arulkumaran; 5. Uterine contractions Sabaratnam Arulkumaran; 6. Identification and management of presumed intrapartum fetal distress Shannyn Rosser, Matthew Daly, Jessica Turner and Sailesh Kumar; 7. Prolonged second stage of labour including difficult decision-making on assisted vaginal birth and caesarean birth Deirdre J. Murphy; 8. Instrumental vaginal deliveries indications, techniques and complications Stergios Doumouchtsis and Sabaratnam Arulkumaran; 9. Vaginal breech deliveries and external cephalic version Tak Yeung Leung; 10. The evidence based caesarean delivery technique Inês Nunes; 11. Shoulder dystocia So Ling Lau and Tak Yeung Leung; 12. Umbilical cord prolapse Lo Wong and Tak Yeung Leung; 13. Twin delivery Soon Leong Yong and Tak Yeung Leung; 14. Antepartum haemorrhage Sarah Li and Arijit Biswas; 15. Management of the third stage of labour Anita Makins, Hajeb Kamali and Pina Amin; 16. Postpartum haemorrhage Idnan Yunas and Arri Coomarasamy; 17. Management of placenta accreta spectrum Ammar Al Naimi and Sally Collins; 18. Acute illness and maternal collapse Harriet E. Pudge, Lucy de Lloyd and Sarah Bell; 19. Episiotomy and obstetric perineal trauma Ranee Thakar, Nicola Adanna Okeahialam and Abdul H. Sultan; 20. Induction of labour Sabaratnam Arulkumaran; 21. Preterm prelabour rupture of membranes (pprom) Austin Ugwumadu; 22. Preterm birth Rebecca Y. Li and Boon Lim; 23. Labour in women with medical disorders Mandish K. Dhanjal; 24. Management of women with previous caesarean section Sau Lan Mok, Tak Yeung Leung and Tsz Kin Lo; 25. Hypertensive disorders in labour and delivery Sophie Earle and James J. Walker; 26. Rupture of the uterus P. K. Sekharan and V. P. Radhadevi; 27. Neonatal resuscitation and the management of immediate neonatal problems Sumit Thakur and Paul Mannix; 28. The immediate puerperium Zohaib Arain and Shankari Arulkumaran; 29. Triage and prioritisation on labour wards Ann M. Wright, Zi Xi Poo and Lay Kok Tan; 30. Maternity training in the 21st century Dawn L. Parris and Dimitrios Siassakos; 31. Risk management in intrapartum care Thangeswaran Rudra and Yogesh C Chadha; 32. Cerebral palsy arising from events in labour Alberto Berenguer, Marta Ribeiro and Diogo Ayres-de-Campos; 33. Non-technical skills to improve obstetric practice Rehan Khan and Kim Hinshaw; Index.
