Active management of labour
Active management of labour: the Dublin experience Kieran O'Driscoll, Declan Meagher; with Peter Boylan
Publisher: London : Mosby, c1993.
ISBN: 0723419108
DDC: 618.4
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-212) and index.
Text -- Primigravidae v. multigravidae -- Induction v. acceleration
-- Malpresentations, malformation, twins -- Duration of labour --
Diagnosis of labour -- Progress: first stage -- Progress: second
stage -- Acceleration of slow labour -- Oxytocin in labour -- Normal
and abnormal labour (dystocia) -- Inefficient uterine action --
Cephalopelvic disproportion -- Occipitoposterior position -- Trauma
-- Pain -- Antenatal preparation -- Analgesic drugs -- Epidural
anaesthesia -- Personal attention -- Role of the doctor -- Role of
the nurse/midwife -- Role of the mother -- Care of the fetus --
Induction -- Organisation -- Cervix in labour -- Caesarean section
rates -- Cerebral palsy -- Visual records -- Primigravid labour --
Duration of labour -- Diagnosis of labour -- Progress in labour --
Care of the fetus -- Oxytocin -- Analgesia -- Method of delivery and
additional items -- Normal labour -- Abnormal labour: slow progress
-- Abnormal labour: secondary arrest -- Method of treatment:
artificial rupture of membranes -- Method of treatment: oxytocin
infusion.
(cont) Failure to respond to treatment: error in diagnosis -- Failure
to respond to treatment: membranes intact -- Failure to respond to
treatment: hesitant use of oxytocin -- Failure to respond to
treatment: cephalopelvic disproportion -- Induction: success --
Induction: failure -- Fetal distress: placental
insufficiency/accident of labour -- Multigravid labour -- Clinical
data -- Comparative figures for 25 years -- Analysis of hospital
population -- Clinical circumstances of perinatal deaths -- Rupture
of uterus -- Traumatic intracranial haemorrhage in firstborn infants
-- Cerebral dysfunction in mature infants -- Diagnosis of labour --
Duration of labour in primigravidae -- Dilatation at admission in
primigravidae -- Obstetrical norms in primigravidae.
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