Nursing & Health: Labour Midwifery Skills
Survival Guide

By Alison Edwards
December 2012
Pearson Education
Distributed by Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN: 9780273763369
58 pages, Illustrated
$14.95 Spiral Bound

OUT OF PRINT

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Ideal for quick reference in any community or birth environment, this pocket-sized guide puts all the crucial information at your fingertips.

Contents:

Anatomy
Apgar scores
Birth environment – promoting normality
Caesarean Section (LSCS) 
Catheterisation
Cord bloods
CTG interpretation
Diabetic women in labour
Emergencies 
Emergency birth
Epidurals
Episiotomy
Examination of the placenta
Fetal blood sampling
Home birth preparation
Initial baby check
Instrumental birth
Mechanism of normal labour (LOA) 
Monitoring maternal and fetal well-being in labour
Obesity and labour
Pain relief
Perineal repair
Positions for labour and birth
Resuscitation equipment
Signs of transition
Stages and phases of labour
Third stage management
Vaginal assessments
Vaginal birth after caesarean (trial of scar)
Waterbirth
Abbreviations
References

 

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