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The Labor Progress Handbook: Early Interventions to Prevent and Treat Dystocia
424NOOK Book(eBook)
Available on Compatible NOOK Devices and the free NOOK Apps.
Overview
This edition includes two new chapters on third and fourth stage labor management and low-technology interventions, a complete analysis of directed versus spontaneous pushing, and additional information on massage techniques. The authors have updated references throughout, expertly weaving the highest level of evidence with years of experience in clinical practice.
The Labor Progress Handbook continues to be a must-have resource for those involved in all aspects of birth by providing practical instruction on low-cost, low-risk interventions to manage and treat dystocia.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780470959374 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 01/31/2011 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Pages: | 424 |
File size: | 7 MB |
About the Author
Ruth Ancheta is a certified DONA doula and approved trainer and has been a certified childbirth educator through ICEA for more than twenty years. She has authored numerous childbirth education materials including the Childbirth Skills Teaching Kit and the VBAC Source Book and Teaching Kit.
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Table of Contents
Foreword to the second edition xviiForeword to the fi rst edition xxi
Acknowledgments xxiii
Chapter 1: Introduction 3
Penny Simkin, BA, PT, CCE, CD(DONA), and Ruth Ancheta, BA, ICCE, CD(DONA)
Chapter 2: Dysfunctional Labor: General Considerations 15
Penny Simkin, BA, PT, CCE, CD(DONA), and Ruth Ancheta, BA, ICCE, CD(DONA)
Chapter 3: Assessing Progress in Labor 51
Suzy Myers, LM, CPM, MPH, with contributions by Gail Tully, BS, CPM, CD(DONA), and Lisa Hanson, PhD, CNM, FACNM
Chapter 4: Prolonged Prelabor and Latent First Stage 101
Penny Simkin, BA, PT, CCE, CD(DONA), and Ruth Ancheta, BA, ICCE, CD(DONA)
Chapter 5: Prolonged Active Phase of Labor 124
Penny Simkin, BA, PT, CCE, CD(DONA), and Ruth Ancheta, BA, ICCE, CD(DONA)
Chapter 6: Prolonged Second Stage of Labor 173
Penny Simkin, BA, PT, CCE, CD(DONA), and Ruth Ancheta, BA, ICCE, CD(DONA)
Chapter 7: Optimal Newborn Transition and Third and Fourth Stage Labor Management 224
Lisa Hanson, PhD, CNM, FACNM, and Penny Simkin, BA, PT, CCE, CD(DONA)
Chapter 8: Low-Technology Clinical Interventions to Promote Labor Progress 242
Lisa Hanson, PhD, CNM, FACNM
Chapter 9: The Labor Progress Toolkit: Part 1. Maternal Positions and Movements 277
Penny Simkin, BA, PT, CCE, CD(DONA), and Ruth Ancheta, BA, ICCE, CD(DONA)
Chapter 10: The Labor Progress Toolkit: Part 2. Comfort Measures 326
Penny Simkin, BA, PT, CCE, CD(DONA), and Ruth Ancheta, BA, ICCE, CD(DONA)
Epidural Index 379
Index 381