Midwifery Essentials: Labour - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 1st Edition
Approx.182 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.
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
