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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794773003321

Autore

Simkin Penny <1938->

Titolo

The labor progress handbook : early interventions to prevent and treat dystocia / / Penny Simkin, Lisa Hanson, Ruth Ancheta ; with contributions by Wendy Gordon, Suzy Myers, Gail Tully ; illustrated by Shanna dela Cruz and Dolly Sundstrom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-119-17050-8

1-119-17047-8

1-119-17052-4

Edizione

[Fourth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (411 pages) : illustrations, charts, tables

Disciplina

618.4

Soggetti

Labor (Obstetrics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Normal labor and labor dystocia : general considerations / Penny Simkin and Ruth Ancheta -- Assessing progress in labor / Wendy Gordon, Suzy Myers, with contributions by Gail Tully and Lisa Hanson -- Prolonged prelabor and latent first stage / Penny Simkin and Ruth Ancheta -- Prolonged active phase of labor / Penny Simkin, Ruth Ancheta, and Lisa Hanson -- Prevention and treatment of prolonged second stage of labor / Penny Simkin, Lisa Hanson, and Ruth Ancheta -- Optimal newborn transition and third and fourth stage labor management / Lisa Hanson and Penny Simkin -- Low-technology clinical interventions to promote labor progress / Lisa Hanson -- Epidural and other forms of neuraxial analgesia for labor : review of effects, with emphasis on preventing dystocia / Penny Simkin -- The labor progress toolkit : part 1 / Penny Simkin, Ruth Ancheta -- The labor progress toolkit : part 2 : comfort measures / Penny Simkin and Ruth Ancheta.