Emergencies Around Childbirth. A Handbook for Midwives 4th Edition

Supporting readers to perform effectively in urgent or emergency situations that can occur in a hospital, at a birth centre or at home, this fully updated fourth edition presents the necessary knowledge and skills for student and practising midwives.

With contributions from highly experienced midwives, this practical guidebook incorporates a new chapter on legal issues for safe practice, as well as additional content on professional issues. It also includes an essential new chapter on cardiac problems, recognising that midwives are often the lead professional caring for women with cardiac anomalies, as many are undiagnosed until the emergency. The book continues to provide key, up-to-date information on high-risk medical and obstetric situations, from serious infection to uterine complications to resuscitation.

Emergencies Around Childbirth is essential reading for practising and student midwives and those who teach them.

CHAPTER 1: AN OVERVIEW OF THE PROFESSIONAL ISSUES THAT SUPPORT SAFE PRACTICE

Kate Nash and Julie Jones

CHAPTER 2: LEGAL ISSUES IN EMERGENCY CARE

Anne O’Loghlen Pinion and Kate Nash

CHAPTER 3: MATERNAL AND NEWBORN RESUSCITATION

Jenny Brewster

CHAPTER 4: ANTEPARTUM HAEMORRHAGE

Luisa Acosta

CHAPTER 5: CARDIAC CONDITIONS

Maureen Boyle

CHAPTER 6: THROMBOEMBOLISM IN PREGNANCY

Judy Bothamley

CHAPTER 7: PRE-ECLAMPSIA AND ASSOCIATED CONDITIONS

Maureen Boyle

CHAPTER 8: MALPRESENTATIONS

Maureen Boyle

CHAPTER 9: CORD PROLAPSE

Clare Gordon

CHAPTER 10: SHOULDER DYSTOCIA

Debra Sloam

CHAPTER 11: UTERINE COMPLICATIONS

Marie Hall

CHAPTER 12: PRIMARY POSTPARTUM HAEMORRHAGE

Jessica Scoble

CHAPTER 13: AMNIOTIC FLUID EMBOLISM (ANAPHYLACTOID SYNDROME OF PREGNANCY

Maureen Boyle

CHAPTER 14: SERIOUS INFECTION

Judy Bothamley

CHAPTER 15: OTHER CAUSES OF POTENTIAL MATERNAL COLLAPSE

Andrea Aras-Payne

CHAPTER 16: BIRTH TRAUMA AND POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

Reina Fisher-van Werkhoven

CHAPTER 17: POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSIS

Reina Fisher-van Werkhoven