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Book SynopsisA Pocket Guide for Student Midwives is an accessible, portable book offering student midwives everything they need to grasp the key elements of midwifery language, knowledge and skills. The new edition of this useful aide-memoire is divided into two parts. The first includes relevant terms, abbreviations and definitions.
Trade ReviewClinical Pathology for the Veterinary Team will help experienced veterinary technicians set up various clinical laboratory diagnostic tests. It provides a good explanation of basic laboratory practices, the underlying concepts of many laboratory tests, and the physiology of common disease conditions. This book is well worth the price. (Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, December 2010)This book provides a good overall summary of basic clinical pathology in small animals. Although it is fairly short and concise, it contains all the necessary relevant information and includes a CD that takes readers thorough six complicated cases, step by step. This is a useful book that would be a handy reference to have in a practice. It is easy to read, concise, and informative. Although it is aimed at small animal veterinary teams, it includes limited information about large animal species, which is important for a good, general understanding. (Doodys, December 2010)Clinical Pathology for the Veterinary Team offers a fine recourse for technical team members involved in clinical diagnostic evaluation. Machinery calibration, normal anatomy, clinical diagnostics and more are revealed in chapters that provide key technical information for Obtaining and evaluating samples, surveying the disease process, the progress of identification and treatment, and including a DVD with interactive cases. Vet collections need this! (THE MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW, November 2010)Rosenfeld, a veterinarian who is associated with an education corporation that specializes in seminar training for the hospital team, and Dial (veterinary science and microbiology, U. of Arizona) provide a resource for technical veterinary team members performing clinical diagnostic evaluation in small animal lab work. (Book News, September 2010) ReviewUpdater-Profile-1@1326749614540
Table of ContentsAbout the Authors xiii
Preface xiv
Acknowledgements xvi
Section 1 The language of midwifery 1
Section 2 Quick reference topics 27
Abdominal palpation 27
Active management of labour 28
Administration of drugs 29
Admission in labour 32
Adoption 33
Amniocentesis 36
Amniotic Fluid Embolus (AFE) 37
Anaemia 39
Antenatal screening 40
Antepartum haemorrhage 42
Arterial blood pressure recording 45
Artificial feeds – bottle feeding 46
Artificial rupture of membranes (ARM) 47
Aseptic technique 48
Augmentation/acceleration of labour 49
Basic life support (BLS) – adult 52
Birth asphyxia 53
Bladder care in labour 55
Blood glucose monitoring (neonatal) 55
Blood pressure measuring 55
Bowel care in labour 56
Breast expression of milk 57
Breastfeeding 58
Breastfeeding Initiative (BFI) 63
Breech 63
Brow presentation 69
Caesarean section 69
Cardiotocography (CTG) 73
Carpal tunnel syndrome 77
Catheterisation 77
Cephalo-pelvic disproportion (CPD) 78
Changing Childbirth 80
Child protection 81
The Children Act, 1989 81
Cholestasis 82
Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS) 83
Clapa 84
Clasp trial 84
Cleft lip and palate 85
Clinical governance 86
Centre for Maternal and Child Enquiries (CMACE) 86
Community Health Councils (CHCs) 86
Complementary therapies 86
Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH) 89
Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths (CEMD) 89
Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths in Infancy (CESDI) 90
Congenital dislocation of hips 90
CONI (care of next infant) 91
Contraception advice 91
Convulsions 95
Cord prolapse/presentation 95
Cramp 96
Crying baby 98
Cultural aspects related to childbirth 99
Cup feeding 104
Cystic fibrosis 104
Cystitis 105
Deep vein thrombosis 106
Delivery technique 107
Diabetes mellitus 117
Disseminated intravascular coagulation (coagulopathy) (DIC) 125
Down’s syndrome 126
Drug-addicted mother and neonate 128
Eclampsia 128
Embolism 129
Epigastric pain 132
Epilepsy 132
Epilepsy and pregnancy 134
Episiotomy 134
Erb’s palsy (paralysis) 136
Exchange transfusion 136
Face presentation 139
Fainting 140
Fetal distress 140
Fitting 143
Forceps delivery 143
Frequency of micturition 143
Fundal height estimation (antenatal) 144
Fundal height estimation (postnatal) 145
Haemoglobinopathies 145
Haemorrhagic disease (Vitamin-K-deficient bleeding – VKDB) 152
Haemorrhoids 154
Headaches 155
Heartburn 155
Heel prick – peripheral blood sampling 156
High vaginal swab (HVS)/speculum examination 159
History taking 160
HOOP (Hands On Or Poised) Study 161
Hyperemesis gravidarum 162
Hypoglycaemia – neonatal 162
Hypothermia – neonatal 163
Hypothyroidism 164
Identification of newborn at birth 164
Incontinence 165
Induction of labour – alternative and ‘natural’ 166
Induction of labour – medical: uncomplicated pregnancy 166
Induction of labour – IUD 169
Infection – maternal 169
Infection – neonatal 172
Initial newborn examination 175
Insomnia 177
Instrumental delivery – Forceps delivery 178
Instrumental delivery – Ventouse delivery 179
Intrauterine death (IUD) 181
Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) 185
Intravenous cannulation/infusion (IVI) 186
Jaundice 188
Jittery (twitching) baby 191
Ketonuria 192
Local Supervising Authority (LSA) 193
MAGPIE trial 193
Malpresentation – fetus 194
Maternity action 194
Maternity benefits 194
Maternity services liaison committees 195
Meconium liquor 196
Medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MCADD) 197
Mendelson’s syndrome 198
Mid-stream specimen urine (MSSU) 199
Multiple pregnancy/births 200
National Childbirth Trust (NCT) 202
Nausea and vomiting 203
Neonatal screening 205
Neural tube defect (NTD) 205
Obesity in pregnancy 207
Occipito-posterior (OP) position 208
Oligohydramnios 211
Ophthalmia neonatorum 213
ORACLE trial 214
Parent education 214
Partogram completion 216
Perineal repair 216
Perineal/surrounding area trauma 218
Phenylketonuria (PKU) 222
Phototherapy 225
Placental examination 226
Polyhydramnios 232
Postnatal care/examination – baby 234
Postnatal care – mother 236
Postnatal depression 238
Postnatal exercises 240
Post-partum haemorrhage – primary 241
Post-partum haemorrhage – secondary 243
Pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) and pre-eclampsia 245
Pre-labour or premature rupture of membranes (prom) 251
Preterm baby 254
Preterm labour 259
Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) 261
Prolonged labour – first stage 262
Prolonged labour – second stage 263
Pruritus 264
Pudendal nerve block 266
Pulse taking 267
Relaxation techniques 267
Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) (Surfacant deficiency syndrome [SDS]) 269
Resuscitation of newborn 271
Retained placenta 271
Retinopathy of the newborn 275
Safe Motherhood Initiative 277
Sexually transmitted infection (STI) 277
Sheehan’s syndrome 277
Shoulder dystocia 278
Sickle cell disease 281
Small-for-gestational-age baby (SGA) 281
Smoking and pregnancy 284
Stillbirth 288
Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society (SANDS) 288
Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) 289
Substance-abusing mother and baby 289
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) 293
Symphysis pubis pain/sacro-iliac pain 295
Talipes equinovarus 296
Teenage pregnancy 298
Temperature-taking 299
Tentorial tear 301
Term breech trial 303
Thalassaemia 303
Thrombosis and Thromboembolism 303
Thrombophlebitis 303
Transverse/oblique lie 304
Twins 305
Urinary tract infection – UTI 305
Uterine inversion 306
Uterine rupture 307
Vaginal examination (VE) 312
Varicose veins 314
Venepuncture 316
Ventouse delivery 317
Vomiting 317
Winterton report (1992) 317
