Leroy Edozien

The Labour Ward Handbook (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This succinct manual provides detailed clinical practice guidelines for the care of women in labour, this is designed to be a ready guide for use in the delivery suite by the busy clinician. The third edition has been updated to include new developments in clinical practice and governance and new guidelines. So far as is possible, the differences in care scenarios internationally have been addressed to provide a reliable guide to safe delivery.

Key Features

• Provides detailed clinical practice guidelines for the care of women in labour
• Offers a ready guide for use in the delivery suite by the busy obstetric clinician and all members of the team
• Focuses on the clinical relevance of the problem points arising.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351584470
• Artikelnr.: 68347464

Autorenporträt

Dr Edozien has been Former Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, UK and Professor & Director of Institute of Advanced Clinical Sciences Education at University of Medical Sciences, Ondo City, Nigeria.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Acknowledgements. About the Author. Abbreviations. Glossary.
Bleep/crash calls. Part I: Approach to care. The biopsychosocial approach
to care of the woman in labour. Communication between care providers.
Documentation. Admission to, and discharge home from, the delivery suite.
Learning from clinical incidents. T ransfer of care between professionals.
Reviewing what happened. Part II: Normal and Low-Risk Labour. Vaginal
examination. Intravenous cannulation. Management of normal labour.
Prelabour rupture of membranes at term (37-42 weeks). Management of the
first stage of labour. Fetal monitoring. Fetal scalp blood sampling.
Augmentation of labour. Cord-blood sampling. Epidural analgesia in labour.
Management of the second stage of labour. Criteria for paediatric
attendance at delivery. Management of the third stage of labour. Immediate
postpartum care. Care of the newborn. Meconium-stained amniotic fluid.
Neonatal resuscitation. Babies born before arrival at hospital. Episiotomy.
The woman with a history of childhood sexual abuse. Use of birthing pool.
Part III: Abnormal and high-risk labour. SECTION 1. Powers, passenger,
passage. Caesarean section. Recovery of obstetric patients. High-dependency
care. Failed intubation drill. Instrumental delivery. Trial of vaginal
delivery after a previous caesarean section. Induction of labour. Antenatal
corticosteroid therapy. Preterm prelabour rupture of membranes. Preterm
uterine contractions. Deliveries at the lower margin of viability. Multiple
pregnancy. Abnormal lie in labour. Occipito-posterior position.
Malpresentation. Breech presentation. External cephalic version. The woman
with genital cutting. The obese woman in labour. Perineal tear. SECTION 2.
Medical conditions. Heart disease in labour. Peripartum cardiomyopathy.
Pre-eclampsia. Eclampsia. Diabetes mellitus. Asthma (acute exacerbation in
labour). Epilepsy. Systemic lupus erythematosus. Connective tissue
disorders. SECTION 3. Haemorrhage and haematological disorders. The
rhesus-negative woman. Thromboembolism prophylaxis. Acute venous
thromboembolism and pulmonary embolism. Major haemoglobinopathy. Inherited
coagulation disorders: Haemophilia and von Willebrand disease. Immune
thrombocytopenic purpura. Thrombophilia. Gestational thrombocytopenia.
Antepartum haemorrhage. Major placenta praevia. Placenta accreta spectrum.
Retained placenta. Postpartum haemorrhage. Disseminated intravascular
coagulopathy. Delivery of the woman at known risk of haemorrhage. Standards
for administering blood transfusion. Management of the woman who declines
blood transfusion. SECTION 4. Infection. Prophylactic antibiotics.
Intrapartum sepsis. Hepatitis B and C. Intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis
for Group B streptococci. Genital herpes. Human immunodeficiency virus. The
woman with COVID-19. SECTION 5. Other obstetric emergencies. Paravaginal
haematoma and cervical tear. Rupture of the uterus. Shoulder dystocia. Cord
prolapse. Anaphylaxis. Inverted uterus. Amniotic fluid embolism. Sudden
maternal collapse. Latex allergy. SECTION 6. Stillbirths and congenital
abnormalities. Checklist for fetal loss at 13-23 weeks. Intrauterine fetal
demise. Mid-trimester termination of pregnancy for fetal abnormality.
Appendix. Index.