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More About This Title A Pocket Guide for Student Midwives
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About the authors ix
Foreword, by Dame Lorna Muirhead, DBE, President of the Royal College of Midwives 1997–2004 x
Preface xi
Section 1 The Language of Midwifery
Terms, abbreviations, definitions 1
Section 2 Quick Reference Topics
Conditions, procedures, emergency situations, supporting information, e.g. voluntary organisations 20
Figures Flow / action charts
1 Antepartum haemorrhage 31
2 Neonatal resuscitation 38
3.1 Cord prolapse – presentation at home 70
3.2 Cord prolapse – presentation in hospital 71
4 Apgar score 80
5.1 Management of third stage of labour – physiological and active 82
5.2 Management of third stage of labour – alternative active management 83
6 Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) 95
7 Eclampsia 97
8 Genetic inheritance, e.g. PKU 163
9 Post-partum haemorrhage – primary 178
10 Post-partum haemorrhage – secondary 179
11.1 Retained placenta – at home 202
11.2 Retained placenta – in hospital 203
12 Shoulder dystocia 208
13 Uterine inversion 229
14 Uterine rupture 231
Diagrams
1.1, 1.2, 1.3 Delivery of occipito-posterior position 84–85
2.1, 2.2, 2.3 Delivery of face presentation 86–87
3.1 Normal haemoglobin composition 110
3.2.1, 3.2.2 Normal adult haemoglobins 110
3.3 Normal fetal haemoglobin 110
3.4.1, 3.4.2 Sickle cell haemoglobins 111
3.5.1, 3.5.2 Alpha thalassaemia 113
3.6.1, 3.6.2 Beta thalassaemia 114
4 Heel prick sites 118
5.1 to 5.9 Placenta types 166–170
6 Stations of the head in the pelvis 233
References 237
