Designed to provide comprehensive information on high risk maternity care in a concise, accessible format, this practical text helps practitioners ensure that women and their fetuses receive the best care possible. Emphasizing health promotion, risk screening, and prevention of complications in pregnancy, it utilizes the nursing process as the organizational framework for discussions. Coverage of various complications in pregnancy includes incidence, etiology, physiology, pathophysiology, and usual medical management with protocols for practitioners. Collaborative problems and desired outcomes are also addressed.
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Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
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Für Beruf und Forschung
Midwives and Neonatal Nurses
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
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978-0-323-01751-0 (9780323017510)
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PHYSIOLOGIC CONSIDERATIONS OF A HIGH RISK PREGNANCY . Physiologic Adaptations to Pregnancy . General Nursing Assessment of the High Risk Expectant Family . Complementary and Alternative Therapies . Assessment of Fetal Well-Being . Perinatal Screening and Diagnoses . PSYCHOLOGIC IMPLICATIONS OF A HIGH RISK PREGNANCY . Psychologic Adaptations . Pregnancy Loss and Perinatal Grief . ETHICAL DILEMMAS AND LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS IN PERINATAL NURSING . Ethical Decision Making . Legal Issues and Risk Management . HEALTH DISORDERS COMPLICATING PREGNANCY . Diabetes . Cardiac Disease . Renal Disease . Thrombophilias and Connective Tissue Disorders . Pulmonary Disease and Respiratory Distress . COMPLICATIONS IN PREGNANCY . Spontaneous Abortion . Ectopic Pregnancy . Gestational Trophoblastic Disease . Placental Abnormalities . Disseminated Intravascular Coagulopathy . Hemolytic Incompatibility . Hypertensive Disorders . Preterm Labor and Multiple Gestation . Premature Rupture of Membranes . Trauma . TERATOGENS AND SOCIAL ISSUES COMPLICATING PREGNANCY . Sexually and Nonsexually Transmitted Genitourinary Infections . 26 Substance Abuse . ALTERATIONS IN THE MECHANISM OF LABOR . Labor Stimulation . Dysfunctional Labor . Postterm Pregnancy
