Midwifery

NHS support workers, such as nursing Healthcare Assistants, Maternity Support Workers, and Therapy Assistants, often provide the majority of face-to-face care to patients, clients and their families.

This book, now in a comprehensively revised and expanded third edition, covers the full spectrum of applications of Doppler ultrasound within Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Just as children are not little adults, the discipline of paediatric surgery is not equivalent to surgery for adults.

This book recounts the journey of English midwives over six centuries and their battle for survival as a discrete profession, caring safely for childbearing women.

Das Ziel vorliegender Studie ist es, möglichst umfassend die Veröf­ fentlichungen über das Zusammentreffen von Gravidität und Tumor zu erfassen.

This Handbook provides a clear introduction to the theoretical debates surrounding the topic of domestic violence, and also offers practical advice on possible interventions.

Nurses and midwives, both qualified and in training, have a lively interest in how their professions have developed.

For many bereaved parents, the care provided by health professionals at birth - from midwives to antenatal teachers - has a crucial effect on their response to a loss or death.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to various types of perinatal stem cells.

Decision-making pervades all aspects of midwifery practice across the world.

Highlighting the experiences of midwives who provide care to women opting outside of guidelines in the pursuit of physiological birth, Claire Feeley looks at the impact on midwives themselves, and explores how teams and organisations support or discourage women's birth choices.

This book provides a comprehensive resource on the pathology of the human singleton placenta.

Gender differences impact the pathophysiology and clinical burden of diabetes in women.

Research is a fundamental part of midwifery practice.

This book explores the historical, social, political and cultural facets of integration between complementary and alternative medicine and nursing/midwifery.

The Nutrition and Health(TM) series of books has, an overriding mission to provide health professionals with texts that are considered essential because each includes: (1) a synthesis of the state of the science; (2) timely, in-depth reviews by the leading resear- ers in their respective fields; (3) extensive, up-to-date, fully annotated reference lists; (4) a detailed index; (5) relevant tables and figures; (6) identification of paradigm shifts and the consequences; (7) virtually no overlap of information between chapters, but targeted, inter-chapter referrals; (8) suggestions of areas for future research; and (9) balanced, data-driven answers to patient-health professionals' questions, which are based on the totality of evidence rather than the findings of any single study.

This book about the art, craft and science of expert midwifery care, while focusing on 'alternative physiological births' that are those 'outside' of guidelines, the contents can be applied to any birthing choices.

In recent decades, global healthcare professionals and organisations have formed a wide, evidence-based consensus that breastfeeding is usually the best option for both mother and baby.

APPRAISAL AND REVALIDATION SERIES The new Appraisal and Revalidation Series helps doctors demonstrate their competence to the standard expected by the General Medical Council and to the standard expected if they are recognised as having 'special clinical interests'.

It is only in recent years that there has been development in the awareness of the father's mental health.

Qualitative research, particularly phenomenology, is increasingly popular as a method for midwifery and health-related research.

The authors of this book have a goal-to describe the management of infertility from the perspective of physiology and anatomy gone awry.

From pre- to post-birth, here's everything you need to know about the nursing care of mother, child, and familyMaternity Nursing Demystified delivers a detailed, easy-to-follow overview of the essential concepts involved in providing nursing care to the mother and child before, during, and after pregnancy.

This book explores how experiences of IVF can affect the transition to parenthood for non-donor infertile couples.

This accessible book draws on research around women's experiences to illustrate and explore the concept of posttraumatic growth, emphasizing practice implications for healthcare professionals and strategies for fostering posttraumatic growth.

Complexity in childbirth is growing significantly due to several factors that include increasing maternal age, rising levels of obesity and related diabetes.

This new edition of Sarah Franklin's classic monograph on the development of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) includes two entirely new chapters reflecting on the relevance of the book's findings in the context of the past two decades and providing a 'state-of-the-art' review of the field today.

This book explores how experiences of IVF can affect the transition to parenthood for non-donor infertile couples.

Another Twinkle in the Eye is an essential guide for anyone contemplating another pregnancy after perinatal mental illness.

This unique book argues that love underpins safe, effective, and high-quality midwifery care, and enables readers to explore sustainable and compassionate ways to engage with their profession.

Postnatal PTSD, often referred to as birth trauma, is an underdiagnosed and misunderstood condition.

The Physical Therapist's Guide to Women's Pelvic, Perinatal, and Reproductive Health provides physical rehabilitation throughout the lifespan for women and focuses on pelvic, pregnancy, and reproductive conditions in women.

This collection of essays examines the interrelations between illness, disability, health, society, and culture.

'Breast is best' is today's prevailing mantra.

A growing majority of women in the western hemisphere have been delaying initiation of childbearing to later in life.

Birthing Autonomy brings some balance to the difficult arguments that arise from debates about home births, and focuses on women's views and their experiences of planning home births.

Dieses am Gegenstandskatalog Humangenetik orientierte Lehrbuch ist einerseits für Studierende andererseits für Kliniker und niedergelassene Ärzte konzipiert, die in der Praxis mit Erkrankungen genetischen Ursprungs konfrontiert sind.

This book systematically covers the anatomy and pathology of the fetal brain and spine.

This book provides a practical, multidisciplinary approach to support a broad range of health professionals, social workers, public health workers and others tasked with providing health and care to young adults.

Originally published in 1980, the setting of this book is in the practicalities of teaching on labour wards, in antenatal clinics and in child health clinics.

Everyone working in health and social care is at one point or another confronted by violent behaviour and its consequences.

Die Dopplersonographie ist in der Geburtsmedizin die einzige Methode, mit der wissenschaftlich nachweisbar die perinatale Mortalität in Hochrisikokollektiven gesenkt werden kann.

Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is at the root of diverse conditions such as stroke, leg vein thrombosis and recurrent miscarriages.

Fieber, Bauchkrämpfe, Ernährung, Fernsehsucht, Homöopathie, Impfungen, Kortison, Reiseapotheke, Schulangst – das ist nur eine kleine Auswahl aus mehr als 1000 Stichworten dieses Lexikons.

Critical care in obstetrics is an upcoming specialty in the developing countries.