Emergencies Around Childbirth

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.

Autorentext

Maureen Boyle is Senior Lecturer in Midwifery at the University of West London, UK.

Inhalt

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