Midwifery Essentials: Labour E-Book

Description

Approx.188 pages

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.

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Readership

student and practising midwives; labour ward personnel; nurses studying midwifery

Table of Contents

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Author Information

By Helen Baston, BA(Hons), MMedSci, PhD, PGDipEd, ADM, RN, RM, Consultant Midwife Public Health, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Researcher / Lecturer, University of Sheffield; Honorary Lecturer Sheffield Hallam University, UK. and Jennifer Hall, EdD MSc RN RM ADM PGDip(HE) SFHEA FRCM, Independent Midwifery Educator and Researcher, Bristol, UK