Labor and delivery care a practical guide / Wayne R. Cohen, Md, Emanuel A. Friedman, MD, Med ScD.

Contents Communicating effectively with your patient -- Examining your patient -- Normal labor and delivery -- Evaluating the pelvis -- Diagnosing and treating dysfunctional labor -- Managing the third stage -- Dealing with malpositions and deflexed attitudes -- Managing breech presentation and transverse lie -- Avoiding and managing birth canal trauma -- Inducing labor -- Cesarean delivery -- Delivering twins -- Managing shoulder dystocia -- Using forceps and the vacuum extractor -- Obstetric case studies.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011020592
ISBN9780470654590 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN9781119971535 (ePDF)
ISBN9781119971566 (Wiley Online Library)
ISBN9781119971542 (ePub)
ISBN9781119971559 (mobi)

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