Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781405116381
Year: 2007
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 294


Description:
Critical Care in Childbearing for Midwives is a comprehensive,
up-to-date guide surrounding the support, care and management of
critically ill women in childbearing specifically written for
midwives.


Many women who have higher-risk pregnancies, complications or
medical conditions require specialist obstetric or
multidisciplinary care. Increasingly women, whose condition
deteriorates and becomes critical during childbirth, are being
cared for by midwives in obstetric high dependency units within the
labour ward, rather than being cared for by nurses in ITU.



Critical Care in Childbearing for Midwives explores all aspects
of management, support and care of childbearing women who become
critically ill due to pre-existing conditions or who develop
critical illness as a result of complications of childbearing. It
examines predisposing factors which result in the need for critical
care, addresses specialist monitoring technology and skills, and
explores autonomous practice and team approaches to providing care
for critically ill women in childbearing.