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The new edition of this useful aide-memoire is divided into two parts. The first includes relevant terms, abbreviations and definitions. The second part is a quick A-Z reference guide to common conditions, procedures, emergency situations, and supporting information, enhanced by visual material to aid comprehension of normality and anomalies. The innovative action flow charts enable rapid access to information that logically guides the reader through procedures in potentially life-threatening situations, in both home and hospital settings.
A Pocket Guide for Student Midwives is essential reading for the new non-nurse student midwife, the experienced nurse entering the midwifery profession, and senior student midwives.
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Pam Lee is Associate Lecturer in Midwifery and Women’s Health, Edge Hill University, UK.
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About 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
Figures
Figure 1 Antepartum haemorrhage 44
Figure 2 Apgar score 53
Figure 3 Neonatal resuscitation 54
Figure 4 Cord prolapse – presentation at home 96
Figure 5 Cord prolapse – presentation in hospital 97
Figure 6 Management of third stage of labour – physiological and active 110
Figure 7 Management of third stage of labour – alternative active management 111
Figure 8 Persistent occipito-posterior position – landmarks on vaginal examination 113
Figure 9 Persistent occipito-posterior position – delivery of the occiput 114
Figure 10 Persistent occipito-posterior position – delivery of the chin 115
Figure 11 Face presentation – landmarks on vaginal examination 115
Figure 12 Face presentation – delivery of the chin 116
Figure 13 Face presentation – delivery of the occiput 116
Figure 14 Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) 127
Figure 15 Eclampsia 130
Figure 16 Haemoglobin composition 145
Figure 17 Normal adult haemoglobin HbA 146
Figure 18 Normal adult haemoglobin HbA2 146
Figure 19 Normal fetal haemoglobin 147
Figure 20 Abnormal haemoglobin – sickle cell trait 148
Figure 21 Abnormal haemoglobin – sickle cell disease 148
Figure 22 Abnormal haemoglobin – alpha thalassaemia minor or trait 150
Figure 23 Abnormal haemoglobin – alpha thalassaemia major 151
Figure 24 Abnormal haemoglobin – beta thalassaemia minor 151
Figure 25 Abnormal haemoglobin – beta thalassaemia major 152
Figure 26 Foot with sites for heel prick 157
Figure 27 Genetic inheritance, e.g. PKU 223
Figure 28 Normal placenta at term –maternal surface 227
Figure 29 Normal placenta at term – fetal surface 228
Figure 30 Normal placenta – lateral view showing two membranes 228
Figure 31 Abnormal insertion of the cord: Battledore insertion 229
Figure 32 Abnormal insertion of the cord: velamentous insertion 229
Figure 33 Abnormal placenta – bipartite placenta 230
Figure 34 Abnormal placenta – succenturiate lobe 230
Figure 35 Abnormal placenta – circumvallate placenta 231
Figure 36 Lateral view of circumvallate placenta showing the amnion and the double fold of the chorion 231
Figure 37 Post-partum haemorrhage – primary 244
Figure 38 Post-partum haemorrhage – secondary 246
Figure 39 Retained placenta – at home 273
Figure 40 Retained placenta – in hospital 274
Figure 41 Shoulder dystocia 280
Figure 42 Uterine inversion 308
Figure 43 Uterine rupture 311
Figure 44 Stations of the head in the pelvis 313
References 319
