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Labor and delivery care : a practical guide / Wayne R. Cohen, Emanuel A. Friedman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 388 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781119971535
  • 1119971535
  • 9781119971566
  • 111997156X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Labor and delivery care.DDC classification:
  • 618.4 23
LOC classification:
  • RG652 .C63 2011eb
NLM classification:
  • WQ 300
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Contents; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Preface; How to Use This Book; Chapter 1: Communicating Effectively With Your Patient; Special aspects of parturition; Communication skills; Continuity of care; Ethics and maternal-fetal conflict; Violence; Boundaries; Does gender matter?; Goals; Further Reading; Chapter 2: Examining Your Patient; General principles; General examination; Abdominal examination; The pelvic examination; Documentation; Further Reading; Chapter 3: Normal Labor and Delivery; Terminology; Uterine contractility; Clinical course of labor; Graphic analysis of labor.
Summary: "Labor and Delivery: The hands-on guide provides practical and timely information to help guide the clinical care of women during pregnancy. An expert team of authors present the framework to integrate information obtained from hands-on evaluation of laboring women into logical matrix for decision-making and risk avoidance. By not focusing solely on explanations of the readings and usage of technology such as ultrasound and fetal monitoring, this experience-based guide to labor care concentrates on traditional skills of observation and careful physical examinations to help obstetricians care for women during labor while improving her experience of birth"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Labor and Delivery: The hands-on guide provides practical and timely information to help guide the clinical care of women during pregnancy. An expert team of authors present the framework to integrate information obtained from hands-on evaluation of laboring women into logical matrix for decision-making and risk avoidance. By not focusing solely on explanations of the readings and usage of technology such as ultrasound and fetal monitoring, this experience-based guide to labor care concentrates on traditional skills of observation and careful physical examinations to help obstetricians care for women during labor while improving her experience of birth"--Provided by publisher.

Print version record.

Cover; Contents; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Preface; How to Use This Book; Chapter 1: Communicating Effectively With Your Patient; Special aspects of parturition; Communication skills; Continuity of care; Ethics and maternal-fetal conflict; Violence; Boundaries; Does gender matter?; Goals; Further Reading; Chapter 2: Examining Your Patient; General principles; General examination; Abdominal examination; The pelvic examination; Documentation; Further Reading; Chapter 3: Normal Labor and Delivery; Terminology; Uterine contractility; Clinical course of labor; Graphic analysis of labor.

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