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Midwifery Essentials: Labour

Volume 3

'Labour' is the third title in the Midwifery Essentials series and is about the provision of safe and effective care during labour and birth. This book prepares the reader to pr… Leer más

Descripción

'Labour' is the third title in the Midwifery Essentials series and is about the provision of safe and effective care during labour and birth. This book prepares the reader to provide safe, evidence-based, woman-centred intrapartum care.

Puntos claves

  • Assessment and the role of the midwife in early labour

  • The first stage of labour, monitoring maternal and fetal wellbeing

  • Coping with contractions, without pharmacological pain relief

  • Advantages and disadvantages of pharmacological analgesia

  • Indications for induction or augmentation of labour

  • The second stage of labour and the procedure for episiotomy

  • The third stage of labour and the impact of different approaches

  • Different methods of anaesthesia and preparation for caesarean birth

  • The procedure for evidence-based perineal suturing.

De interès para

student and practising midwives; labour ward personnel; nurses studying midwifery

Índice

Labour Volume:


1. Introduction


2. Early assessment and admission in labour


3. The first stage of labour


4. Non-pharmalogical methods of coping with labour


5. Using water in labour


6. Pharmalogical methods of pain relief


7. Induced or accelerated labour


8. The second stage of labour


9. The third stage of labour


10. Caesarian birth


11. Perineal repair

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Sobre los autores

HB

Helen Baston

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Consultant Midwife Public Health, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Researcher / Lecturer, University of Sheffield; Honorary Lecturer Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

JH

Jennifer Hall

EdD RM ADM MSc (Reproduction & Health) PGDip(HE)
Afiliaciones y experiencia
Independent Midwifery Educator and Researcher, Bristol, UK