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Proactive support of labor : the challenge of normal childbirth /
Proactive Support of Labor enhances professional labor and delivery skills by providing the expertise for preventing prolonged labor which is the root-cause of women's dissatisfaction with the experience of childbirth. Step-by-step, evidence-based guidance on good practice during labor is given...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Cambridge medicine (Series)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- General introduction
- Medical excess in normal childbirth
- Iatrogenic causes of failed labors
- Harmful birth care practices
- Destructive territorial disputes
- Self-sustaining mechanisms
- Lessons from nature
- Elementary biophysics of birth
- First-stage labor revisited
- Second-stage labor redefined
- Definitions and verbal precision
- Introductory synopsis
- Nulliparous versus parous labor
- Diagnosis of labor
- Prevention of long labor
- Personal continuity and continuous support
- Amniotomy and oxytocin
- Labor pain in broader perspective
- Prelabor preparation
- Medical pain relief revisited
- Dynamic dystocia unraveled
- Mechanical birth obstruction
- Curtailed use of induction
- Intrapartum care of the fetus
- Prevention of litigation
- Organizational reforms
- Continual audit and feedback
- Quality assessment
- Hospital statistics
- Sum of the parts.