Midwifery

The role of the community midwife differs dramatically from that of a hospital based practitioner but many midwifes entering this area of practice may not feel well equipped for this diverse experience.

This comprehensive account of the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history examines its devastating effects on West Africa's most vulnerable populations: pregnant women and children.

The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction is a comprehensive overview of the topics, approaches, and trajectories in the anthropological study of human reproduction.

British Medical Association Book Award Winner - Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2021Trainees in Obstetrics and Gynaecology require robust operative skills, yet factors such as the implementation of structured training and increased litigation concerns have significantly limited training time.

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.

This book aims to expand the awareness and understanding of the emotional sequelae of prenatal/preimplantation diagnosis, prenatal decision-making, pregnancy interruption for fetal anomaly, multifetal reduction for high-order multifetal pregnancies and preimplantation choices involving the selection of embryos.

Better Births: The Midwife 'with Woman provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the fundamental concepts at the heart of all midwifery practice.

This book explores how, why and when hermeneutic phenomenology can be used as a methodology in health and social research.

The first book to present the history, ideas, life and works of Chinese midwives and birth attendants, this volume seeks to encapsulate and explain the changing ideas about the practice of midwifery in China.

Despite research which highlights parents' increased anxiety and risk of attachment issues with the pregnancy that follows a perinatal loss, there is often little understanding that bereaved families may need different care in their subsequent pregnancies.

Over the last ten years, pregnancy has not only become more complicated for many women, but the traditional provision of general intensive care units has been reduced.

This book describes how different diagnostic techniques may facilitate the prenatal identification of orofacial malformations.

The new edition of this ground-breaking text is an essential resource for the management of drugs during pregnancy, labour and the postnatal period.

From Birth to Five Years: Practical Developmental Examination is a step-by-step 'how to' guide to the developmental examination of pre-school children.

Das Buch beschreibt in übersichtlicher und gut strukturierter Form alle gynäkologischen und geburtshilflichen Notfälle.

Office Infertility: Practice and Procedures is an invaluable resource to all physicians treating infertile couples.

In today's world 'health' means far more than merely the absence of illness.

Through seven editions, Protocols for High-Risk Pregnancies has helped busy obstetricians keep pace with a constantly evolving field.

This book provides a practical approach to the anesthetic management of surgical and nonsurgical procedures across the spectrum of anesthesia sub-specialties.

For nearly two decades, anesthesiologists and obstetricians have turned to this handbook as the definitive reference for obstetric anesthesia.

Diagnostische und therapeutische Maßnahmen im Kindesalter müssen den Verhaltenseigenarten des Kindes besonders angepaßt werden.

Health care professionals need to make rapid decisions under pressure to prevent and manage adverse outcomes during childbirth.

During the past several years, there has been an extensive reappraisal of the physiologic changes of pregnancy and their associated disorders, along with a refinement of diagnostic procedures and evaluation of the therapeutic approaches that are of primary concern to the physician.

Infancy: The Basics offers an introduction to the developmental science behind the fascinating world of infant development.

Essential Midwifery Practice: Public Health highlights important developments in public health over recent years and relates the implications for midwifery practice in a clear and easily understood manner.

Obstetrical care in the family medicine setting is an ever-evolving discipline.

This accessible, evidence-based book explores how important it is for midwives to understand the psychological aspects of care, in order to create positive experiences for mothers and families.

Der plötzliche Säuglingstod (Sudden Infant Death, SID) ist trotz vieler neuer Erkenntnisse der letzten Jahre noch immer ein Rätsel und eine Herausforderung für Ärzte und andere damit befaßte Berufsgruppen sowie eine ungeheure Belastung für Eltern und Angehörige.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book is a practical guide to the optimal clinical management of preterm delivery, using the best available evidence of the time.

This book provides clinicians and their staff with essential information on the vaccines that are recommended and not recommended for their patients, the diseases these vaccines prevent, and a broad range of potential vaccine safety issues that may be brought up by their patients.

A seasoned inner-city family physician concisely surveys the normal obstetrics encountered in a busy medical practice to provide a practical guide to the evaluation and management of common prenatal, peripartum, and postpartum complications.

Decision making in modem obstetrics and perinatology is con- trolled by a variety of different factors, but there is little doubt that in industrialized countries one of the most powerful single factors is the concern and fear of causing permanent brain damage in the unborn and newborn.

Is the experience of childbirth becoming 'globalised'?

Ob im Kreißsaal, bei der Betreuung schwangerer Frauen oder von Wöchnerinnen: Jede Hebamme stößt im Arbeitsalltag früher oder später auf verwaiste Eltern nach einer Tot- oder Fehlgeburt.

The need for joint medical and midwifery care is stressed in the latest CEMACH report, with a recommendation that contemporary midwifery education prepares midwives for problems in pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcome.

This book is inspired by a statement released by the World Health Organization directed at preventing and eliminating disrespectful and abusive treatment during facility-based childbirth.

What is the reality of being a midwife in the twenty-first century?

The book describes the current management of fecal incontinence from an advanced practice nursing perspective.

The quick and easy way to learn the concepts and major theories of pediatric nursing - and how to apply them to real-world situationsIf you re looking for a fun, fast review that boils pediatric nursing down to its most essential, must-know points your search ends here!

Relationships, sex, pregnancy, and abortion are among the topics discussed with engaging frankness by sixteen women in this collection of oral histories.

In this book the use of hybrid simulation in delivery room emergencies is described and shown.

This book teaches students and educators in the midwifery field how to tackle dilemmas and decision making.

This book provides easy to follow guidance on how to manage emergency situations and common problems in obstetric anesthesia.

This book deals with the management of labour, guiding the readers to recognize problems by keen monitoring, based on anatomical and physiological understanding of labour.

Nursing and Social Change is essential reading for nurses who wish to understand how their profession had developed from its earliest beginnings to the present day.

Newborn babies are examined at around 6 to 72 hours after their birth to rule out major congenital abnormalities and reassure the parents that their baby is healthy.