Title Details

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