Labor and Delivery Care

A Practical Guide

Wayne R. Cohen, Emanuel A. Friedman (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2011
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-470-65459-0 (ISBN)

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Labor and Delivery: The Hands-on Guide provides practical and timely information to help guide the clinical care of women during pregnancy. An expert team of authors present the framework to integrate information obtained from hands-on evaluation of laboring women into logical matrix for decision-making and risk avoidance.

Labor and Delivery Care: A Practical Guide supports and reinforces the acquisition of the practical obstetric skills needed for aiding a successful birth. Beginning with the most important element of successful labor care, communicating with the patient, the authors guide you through normal delivery routines and examination techniques. They then address the best approaches to the full range of challenges that can arise during labor and delivery. Throughout, the 15 chapters provide concise practical guidance with:

algorithmic decision trees
clinical management tips
detailed drawings

Labor and Delivery Care: A Practical Guide provides a thorough tour-de-force of the practical obstetric skills needed for best and safest practice based on clinical experience and evidence.

Wayne R. Cohen, MD, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women’s Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. Emanuel A. Friedman, MD, ScD, Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Preface, vii How to Use This Book, xi

1 Communicating Effectively With Your Patient, 1

2 Examining Your Patient, 13

3 Normal Labor and Delivery, 32

4 Evaluating the Pelvis, 51

5 Diagnosing and Treating Dysfunctional Labor, 81

6 Managing the Third Stage, 111

7 Dealing with Malpositions and Defl exed Attitudes, 128

8 Managing Breech Presentation and Transverse Lie, 151

9 Avoiding and Managing Birth Canal Trauma, 182

10 Inducing Labor, 204

11 Cesarean Delivery, 227

12 Delivering Twins, 250

13 Managing Shoulder Dystocia, 270

14 Using Forceps and the Vacuum Extractor, 290

15 Obstetric Case Studies, 313

Answers to Obstetric Case Studies, 339

Glossary, 355

Index, 383

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.12.2011
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	180 x 253 mm
Gewicht	939 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen
ISBN-10	0-470-65459-7 / 0470654597
ISBN-13	978-0-470-65459-0 / 9780470654590
Zustand	Neuware