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.
By:
Mary Billington (University of Greenwich), Mandy Stevenson (University of Greenwich) Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 175mm,
Spine: 16mm
Weight: 644g ISBN:9781405116381 ISBN 10: 1405116382 Pages: 304 Publication Date:03 January 2007 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Mary Billington and Mandy Stevenson are both senior lecturers in midwifery at the School of Health and Social Care, University of Greenwich.