Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Simkin, Penny

Title The Labor Progress Handbook : Early Interventions to Prevent and Treat Dystocia
Edition 3rd ed
Published Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2011

Copies

Description 1 online resource (425 pages)
Contents The Labor Progress Handbook; Contents; Foreword to the third edition; Foreword to the second edition; Foreword to the first edition; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; SOME IMPORTANT DIFFERENCES IN MATERNITY CARE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES, THE UNITED KINGDOM, AND CANADA; NOTES ON THIS BOOK; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 2: Dysfunctional Labor: General Considerations; WHAT IS NORMAL LABOR?; WHAT IS DYSFUNCTIONAL LABOR?; WHY DOES LABOR PROGRESS SLOW DOWN OR STOP?; A role for the fetus in regulating labor?
THE PSYCHOEMOTIONAL STATE OF THE WOMAN: MATERNAL WELL -- BEING OR MATERNAL DISTRESS?Pain versus Suffering; The " fight -- or -- flight " and " tend -- and -- befriend "responses to distress and fear in labor; The environment for birth; Psychoemotional measures; Physical comfort measures; Physiologic measures; WHY FOCUS ON MATERNAL POSITION?; MONITORING THE MOBILE WOMAN ' S FETUS; Auscultation; When EFM is required: options to enhance maternal mobility; Continuous EFM; Intermittent EFM; Telemetry; TECHNIQUES TO ELICIT STRONGER CONTRACTIONS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES
Chapter 3: Assessing Progress in LaborBEFORE LABOR BEGINS; Malposition; Leopold ' s maneuvers; Belly Mapping; Other assessments prior to labor; ASSESSMENTS DURING LABOR; Position, attitude, and station of the fetus; Vaginal examinations: indications and timing; Performing a vaginal examination during labor; Assessing the cervix; Unusual cervical findings; The presenting part; The vagina and bony pelvis; Quality of contractions; ASSESSING THE MOTHER ' S CONDITION; Hydration and nourishment; Vital signs; Psychology; ASSESSING THE FETUS; Fetal heart rate; How to perform intermittent auscultation
When using continuous electronic fetal monitoringThe three -- tiered fetal heart rate interpretation system; PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER; Assessing progress in the first stage; Assessing progress in the second stage; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 4: Prolonged Prelabor and Latent First Stage; IS IT DYSTOCIA?; When is a woman in labor?; Can prenatal measures prevent the fetal occiput posterior position during labor?; The woman who has hours of contractions without dilation; THE SIX WAYS TO PROGRESS IN LABOR; SUPPORT MEASURES FOR WOMEN WHO ARE AT HOME IN PRELABOR AND THE LATENT PHASE
SOME REASONS FOR EXCESSIVE PAIN AND DURATION OF PRELABOR OR THE LATENT PHASEIatrogenic factors; Cervical factors; Fetal factors; Emotional factors; TROUBLESHOOTING MEASURES FOR PAINFUL PROLONGED PRELABOR OR LATENT PHASE; MEASURES TO ALLEVIATE PAINFUL, NONPROGRESSING, NONDILATING CONTRACTIONS IN PRELABOR OR THE LATENT PHASE; Synclitism and asynclitism; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 5: Prolonged Active Phase of Labor; WHEN IS ACTIVE LABOR PROLONGED?; CHARACTERISTICS OF PROLONGED ACTIVE LABOR; POSSIBLE CAUSES OF PROLONGED ACTIVE LABOR; Fetal and fetopelvic factors
Summary The third edition of The Labor Progress Handbook builds on the success of first two editions and remains an unparalleled resource on simple, non-invasive interventions to prevent or treat difficult labor. Features new to this edition include two new chapters on third and fourth stage labor management and low-technology interventions, a complete analysis of directed versus spontaneous pushing, and additional information on massage techniques
Notes How fetal malpositions delay labor progress
Print version record
Subject Labor (Obstetrics) -- Complications -- Prevention -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Birth injuries -- Prevention -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
MEDICAL -- Gynecology & Obstetrics.
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals.
Form Electronic book
Author Ancheta, Ruth
ISBN 9780470959367
0470959363