Survival Guide To Midwifery

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Perfect for practice placement, this handy survival guide gives you the clinical information you need at your fingertips. Pocket size, high-level summary of clinical content, section on anatomy and great revision aid - all in one book. (2008)

Perfect for practice placements, this handy \'Survival Guide\' gives you the clinical information you need at your fingertips.

All students of midwifery as well as practising midwives who will use this as an \'aide-memoire\'.

Contents:

Section 1: Anatomy and Reproduction

1. The Female Pelvis and the Reproductive Organs
2. The Female Urinary Tract
3. Hormonal Cycles: Fertilisation and Early Development
4. The Placenta
5. The Fetus

Section 2: Pregnancy

6. Preparing for Pregnancy
7. Change and Adaptation in Pregnancy
8. Common Disorders and Useful Exercises
9. Antenatal Care
10. Specialised Fetal Investigations
11. Abnormalities of Early Pregnancy
12. Problems of Pregnancy
13. Common Medical Disorders Associated with Pregnancy
14. Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy
15. Sexually Transmissible and Reproductive Tract Infections in Pregnancy
16. Multiple Pregnancy

Section 3: Labour

17. The First Stage of Labour
18. The Second Stage of Labour
19. The Third Stage of Labour
20. Prolonged Pregnancy and Disorders of Uterine Action
21. Malpositions of the Occiput and Malpresentations
22. Operative Deliveries
23. Obstetric Emergencies

Section 4: Puerperium

24. Physiology and Care in the Puerperium
25. Physical Problems and Complications in the Puerperium
26. The Psychology and Psychopathology of Childbearing

Section 5: The Newborn Baby

27. The Baby at Birth
28. The Normal Baby
29. Feeding
30. The Healthy Low Birthweight Baby
31. Recognising the Ill Baby
32. Respiratory Problems
33. Trauma during Birth, Haemorrhage and Convulsions
34. Congenital Abnormalities
35. Jaundice and Infection
36. Metabolic Problems, Endocrine Disorders and Drug Withdrawal

Section 6: Supporting Safe Practice

37. Supervision of Midwives
38. Complementary Medicine and Maternity Care
Appendix I Drugs
Appendix II Normal Values in Pregnancy
Appendix III Glossary of Terms and Definitions

Date reviewed

02/05/2008

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