Manual of High Risk Pregnancy and Delivery

The only book of its kind, Manual of High Risk Pregnancy & Delivery provides a complete resource for care of this special patient and her complex needs. It helps you provide positive outcomes with coverage of today's newest technology, physiologic considerations, psychologic implications, health disorders, and other complications in pregnancy. Written by noted educator and practitioner Elizabeth Stepp Gilbert, RNC, MS, FNP-BC, CNS, this book also describes how to screen for risk factors, provide preventive management, and intervene appropriately when problems arise. It's a concise, hands-on reference for both inpatient and outpatient settings!

• A consistent format makes this book a practical, hands-on reference in the clinical setting, presenting problems with the following headings: incidence, etiology, physiology, pathophysiology, and medical management.
• Comprehensive coverage includes physiologic considerations, fetal assessment, perinatal screening, ethical and legal issues, health disorders during pregnancy, complications, and labor and delivery issues.
• Up-to-date content includes integrative therapy, domestic violence, multiple gestation, genetics, nutrition, culture, risk management, and all the latest screening tools.

• A section on ethical and legal considerations covers ethical decision making, legal issues, and risk management.

• Updated evidence-based content includes the latest AHWONN standards of practice.
• Patient safety and risk management strategies include updated approaches to improving outcomes, reducing complications, and increasing patient safety during high risk pregnancy and delivery.
• New Venous Thromboembolic Disease chapter provides current information on this increasingly common condition.
• Information on the latest assessment and monitoring devices keeps you current with today's technology.

• Standardized terminology and definitions from the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) lead to accurate and precise communication.

  Klappentext

  The only book of its kind, Manual of High Risk Pregnancy & Delivery provides a complete resource for care of this special patient and her complex needs. It helps you provide positive outcomes with coverage of today's newest technology, physiologic considerations, psychologic implications, health disorders, and other complications in pregnancy. Written by noted educator and practitioner Elizabeth Stepp Gilbert, RNC, MS, FNP-BC, CNS, this book also describes how to screen for risk factors, provide preventive management, and intervene appropriately when problems arise. It's a concise, hands-on reference for both inpatient and outpatient settings!

• A consistent format makes this book a practical, hands-on reference in the clinical setting, presenting problems with the following headings: incidence, etiology, physiology, pathophysiology, and medical management.
• Comprehensive coverage includes physiologic considerations, fetal assessment, perinatal screening, ethical and legal issues, health disorders during pregnancy, complications, and labor and delivery issues.
• Up-to-date content includes integrative therapy, domestic violence, multiple gestation, genetics, nutrition, culture, risk management, and all the latest screening tools.

• A section on ethical and legal considerations covers ethical decision making, legal issues, and risk management.

• Updated evidence-based content includes the latest AHWONN standards of practice.
• Patient safety and risk management strategies include updated approaches to improving outcomes, reducing complications, and increasing patient safety during high risk pregnancy and delivery.
• New Venous Thromboembolic Disease chapter provides current information on this increasingly common condition.
• Information on the latest assessment and monitoring devices keeps you current with today's technology.

• Standardized terminology and definitions from the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) lead to accurate and precise communication.

  Zusammenfassung
  Provides a resource for care of the patient of high risk pregnancy and delivery, and her complex needs. This book helps you provide positive outcomes with coverage of technology, physiologic considerations, psychologic implications, health disorders, and other complications in pregnancy. It is suitable for both inpatient and outpatient settings.

  Inhalt

  Unit I: Physiologic Considerations, Assessments, and Integrative Therapies

  1. Physiologic and Nutritional Adaptations to Pregnancy

  2. General Nursing Assessment of the High Risk Expectant Family

  3. Assessment of Fetal Well-Being

  4. Perinatal Screening, Diagnoses, and Fetal Therapies

  5. Integrative Therapies in Pregnancy and Childbirth

  Unit II: Psychologic Implications of a High Risk Pregnancy

  6. Psychologic Adaptations

  7. Perinatal Death and Bereavement Care

  Unit III: Ethical Dilemmas and Legal Considerations in Perinatal Nursing

  8. Ethical Decision Making

  9. Legal Issues and Risk Management

  Unit IV: Health Disorders Complicating Pregnancy

  10. Diabetes

  11. Cardiac Disease

  12. Renal Disease

  13. Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases

  14. Venous Thromboembolic Disease

  15. Pulmonary Disease and Respiratory Distress

  Unit V: Complications in Pregnancy

  16. Spontaneous Abortion

  17. Ectopic Pregnancy

  18. Gestational Trophoblastic Disease

  19. Lacental Abnormalities

  20. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation

  21. Hemolytic Incompatibility

  22. Hypertensive Disorders

  23. Preterm Labor and Multiple Gestation

  24. Premature Rupture of Membranes

  25. Trauma

  Unit VI: Teratogens and Social Issues Complicating Pregnancy

  26. Sexually and Nonsexually Transmitted Genitourinary Infections

  27. Substance Abuse

  Unit VII: Alterations in the Mechanism of Labor

  28. Labor Stimulation

  29. Dysfunctional Labor

  30. Prolonged Pregnancy