This fully revised and updated new edition of The Midwife's Labour and Birth Handbook is a practical and accessible guide to providing midwifery care whilepromoting women-centered care and normality. This new edition incorporates the latest research and national guidelines, and includes new chapters on twins,caesarean section, bullying, risk management, and IOL. By bringing together the latest midwifery information in a woman-centered way, The Midwife's Labour and Birth Handbook is an essential guide for both student midwives and experienced practicing midwives. INDICE: Chapter 1: Labour and Normal Birth. Cathy Charles. Chapter 2: Vaginal Examination and Artificial Rupture of the Membranes. Vicky Chapman. Chapter 3: Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring in Labour. Bryony Read. Chapter 4: Perineal Trauma and Suturing. Vicky Chapman. Chapter 5: Examination of the Newborn Baby at Birth. Caroline Rutter. Chapter 6: Home Birth. Janet Gwillam. Chapter 7: Water for Labour and Birth. Cathy Charles and Vicky Chapman. Chapter 8: Slow Progress and Malpresentations/Malpositions in Labour. Vicky Chapman. Chapter 9: Asisted Birth: Ventouse and Forceps. Cathy Charles. Chapter 10: Caesarean Section. Cathy Charles. Chapter 11: Vaginal Birth After Caesarean Section. Vicky Chapman. Chapter 12: Preterm Birth. Vicky Chapman and Sian McLaughlin. Chapter 13: Breech Birth. Lesley Shutter. Chapter 14: Twins and Higher Order Births. JoCoggins. Chapter 15: Haemorrhage. Sheila Miskelly. Chapter 16: Emergencies inLabour and Birth. Sheila Miskelly. Chapter 17: Neonatal and Maternal Resuscitation. Nick Castle. Chapter 18: Induction of Labour. Mary-Lou Elliott. Chapter19: Pre-Eclampsia. Annette Briley. Chapter 20: Stillbirth and Neonatal Death.Cathy Charles and Barbara Kavanagh. Chapter 21: Bullying and Assertiveness. Hilary Field. Chapter 22: Risk Management, Litigation and Complaints. Cathy Charles. Chapter 23: Intrapartum Blood Tests. Julie Davies. Chapter 24: Medicinesand The Midwife. Vicky Chapman and Sheila Miskelly
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-6105-3
- Editorial: Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 360
- Fecha Publicación: 12/09/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés