Manual of High Risk Pregnancy and Delivery

Gilbert, Elizabeth S.

ISBN 10: 0323040160 / ISBN 13: 9780323040167

Editore: Mosby, 2006

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Riassunto:

With today's technologic advances and the help of knowledgeable nurses, women have a better chance of having a positive outcome of even a high risk pregnancy and delivery than ever before. Manual of High Risk Pregnancy & Delivery, 4th Edition provides the user with comprehensive information in a concise, accessible format. The book presents various problems in a consistent format that includes incidence, etiology, physiology, pathophysiology, and medical management with protocols for nurse practitioners. It also addresses collaborative problems and desired outcomes.

• Includes current AWHONN Standards of Practice.
• Current information on domestic violence and multiple gestation, including nutritional needs and preterm management.
• Features comprehensive coverage of substance abuse and STIs, including implications for both mother and newborn.
• Incorporates home care pregnancy and delivery throughout.
• Covers the advance practice nurse's role in implementing care
• Discusses trauma during pregnancy and provides guidelines of care for emergency, critical care, and medical-surgical staff.

• Thoroughly updated chapters include the most current evidence-based practice guidelines.
• Includes the latest research on the etiology and treatment of preeclampsia.
• Expanded emphasis on antiphospholipid syndrome and other autoimmune diseases.

Contenuti: UNIT I. PHYSIOLOGIC CONSIDERATIONS, ASSESSMENTS, AND INTEGRATIVE THERAPIES

1. Physiologic and Nutritional Adaptations to Pregnancy

2. General Nursing Assessment of the High Risk Expectant Family

3. Assessment of Fetal Well-Being

4. Perinatal Screening, Diagnoses, and Fetal Therapies

5. Integrative Therapies in Pregnancy and Childbirth

UNIT II. PSYCHOLOGIC IMPLICATIONS OF A HIGH RISK PREGNANCY

6. Psychologic Adaptations

7. Pregnancy Loss and Perinatal Grief

UNIT III. ETHICAL DILEMMAS AND LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS IN PERINTAL NURSING

8. Ethical Decision Making

9. Legal Issues and Risk Management

UNIT IV. HEALTH DISORDERS COMPLICATING PREGNANCY

10. Diabetes

11. Cardiac Disease

12. Renal Disease

13. Autoimmune Diseases

14. Pulmonary Disease and Respiratory Distress

UNIT V. COMPLICATIONS IN PREGNANCY

15. Spontaneous Abortion

16. Ectopic Pregnancy

17. Gestational Trophoblastic Disease

18. Placental Abnormalities

19. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation

20. Hemolytic Incompatibility

21. Hypertensive Disorders

22. Preterm Labor and Multiple Gestation

23. Premature Rupture of Membranes

24. Trauma

UNIT VI. TERATOGENS AND SOCIAL ISSUES COMPLICATING PREGNANCY

25. Sexually and Nonsexually Transmitted Genitourinary Infections

26. Substance Abuse

UNIT VII. ALTERATIONS IN THE MECHANISM OF LABOR

27. Labor Stimulation

28. Dysfunctional Labor

29. Prolonged Pregnancy

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Titolo: Manual of High Risk Pregnancy and Delivery
Casa editrice: Mosby
Data di pubblicazione: 2006
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Very Good
Edizione: 4th Edition.