The Midwives' Guide to Key Medical Conditions

The Midwives' Guide to Key Medical Conditions is designed to help practitioners manage pregnancy and childbirth in women with systemic disease, recognize the early onset of disease-related pregnancy complications, and determine when it may be necessary to refer patients to another member of the healthcare team. The volume is ideal for all midwives, whether qualified or in training.

• Written by well-known authorities in the field to ensure that the information is perfectly tailored to the midwifery student

• Accessible writing style and clear artwork program helps make learning easy

• Recaps on the underlying anatomy and physiology for the relevant body system

• Explains the normal physiological changes that occur during pregnancy

• Summarises the relative risk of the specific disorder in the context of overall maternal mortality

• Explains the pathophysiology of a given condition, with emphasis on its impact on pregnancy

• Explores the relevant management the neonate and the likely impact of the medical disorder on future pregnancies

• Places particular emphasis on the management of critical illness and medical emergencies

• Risk management and the use of pathways of care

• Management of obesity

• Sepsis and infectious diseases

• Additional pre-existing chronic disorders

  Klappentext

  The new edition of this popular paperback continues to offer student midwives with a wealth of information about the key medical conditions seen during pregnancy and childbirth. Each disorder - which has been selected because of its commonality or potential seriousness to health - is accompanied by a clear description of the associated anatomy and physiology thereby affording the reader with a clear understanding of the presenting complaint. Containing almost 60 carefully reproduced line diagrams and an abundance of tables and 'pull out' boxes, this friendly, accessible volume explores the epidemiology of each disease, and its impact on maternal and child health. Relevant physiological changes in pregnancy are also provided, together with a clear discussion of associated pathophysiology. Throughout the book, prenatal, intra-partum and postnatal management advice is given, with particular emphasis given to the care of the acutely ill patient and medical emergencies. The Midwives' Guide to Key Medical Conditions is designed to help practitioners manage pregnancy and childbirth in women with systemic disease, recognize the early onset of disease-related pregnancy complications, and determine when it may be necessary to refer patients to another member of the healthcare team. The volume will ideal for all midwives, whether qualified or in training.

  Zusammenfassung

Amazon review comments (previous editions)

As a student midwife I have found this book invaluable to my training. It covers common medical conditions and their effects on pregnancy. The volume has proved especially useful for several of my second year assignments which focus more on the 'abnormal' pregnancy. I will continue to use this book throughout my training and once qualified.

This book is very well written and provides in-depth knowledge on key medical conditions. It is an essential part of any student midwife's reading list, easy to read yet containing the right level of information required. Brilliant!

Excellent resource for lectures and writing assignments. Well written, easy to understand and relevant to my degree course. I would highly recommend it!

Excellent book and ideal as it gets straight to the point without useless information.

Fantastic.. it has been used in most assignments and has lots of useful and up-to-date information in it. A must for midwifery students!

Inhalt

1. The midwife's role

   2. Hypertensive disorders

   3. Cardiac disorders

   4. Thromboembolic disorders

   5. Haematological disorders

   6. Respiratory problems

   7. Renal disorders

   8. Epilepsy and other neurological conditions

   9. Disorders of the endocrine system

   10. Eating disorders

   11. Disorders of the gastrointestinal system

   12. Sepsis and infections in pregnancy and childbirth

   13. Other medical conditions related to pregnancy and childbirth