Midwifery Essentials: Labour
Volume 3
- 1st Edition, Volume 3 - September 3, 2009
- Latest edition
- Authors: Helen Baston, Jennifer Hall
- Language: English
'Labour' is the third title in the Midwifery Essentials series and is about the provision of safe and effective care during labour and birth. This book prepares the reader to pr… Read more
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Description
Description
'Labour' is the third title in the Midwifery Essentials series and is about the provision of safe and effective care during labour and birth. This book prepares the reader to provide safe, evidence-based, woman-centred intrapartum care.
Key features
Key features
- Assessment and the role of the midwife in early labour
- The first stage of labour, monitoring maternal and fetal wellbeing
- Coping with contractions, without pharmacological pain relief
- Advantages and disadvantages of pharmacological analgesia
- Indications for induction or augmentation of labour
- The second stage of labour and the procedure for episiotomy
- The third stage of labour and the impact of different approaches
- Different methods of anaesthesia and preparation for caesarean birth
- The procedure for evidence-based perineal suturing.
Readership
Readership
student and practising midwives; labour ward personnel; nurses studying midwifery
Table of contents
Table of contents
Labour Volume:
1. Introduction
2. Early assessment and admission in labour
3. The first stage of labour
4. Non-pharmalogical methods of coping with labour
5. Using water in labour
6. Pharmalogical methods of pain relief
7. Induced or accelerated labour
8. The second stage of labour
9. The third stage of labour
10. Caesarian birth
11. Perineal repair
1. Introduction
2. Early assessment and admission in labour
3. The first stage of labour
4. Non-pharmalogical methods of coping with labour
5. Using water in labour
6. Pharmalogical methods of pain relief
7. Induced or accelerated labour
8. The second stage of labour
9. The third stage of labour
10. Caesarian birth
11. Perineal repair
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Volume: 3
- Published: October 22, 2009
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
HB
Helen Baston
Affiliations and expertise
Consultant Midwife Public Health, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Researcher / Lecturer, University of Sheffield; Honorary Lecturer Sheffield Hallam University, UK.JH
Jennifer Hall
EdD RM ADM MSc (Reproduction & Health) PGDip(HE)
Affiliations and expertise
Independent Midwifery Educator and Researcher, Bristol, UK