Manual of High Risk Pregnancy & Delivery

by Gilbert, Elizabeth Stepp

• ISBN13: 9780323072533
• ISBN10: 0323072534
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-01
• Publisher: MOSBY-YEAR BOOK INC

Summary

The only book of its kind, Manual of High Risk Pregnancy & Delivery provides a complete resource for care of this special patient and her complex needs. It helps you provide positive outcomes with coverage of today's newest technology, physiologic considerations, psychologic implications, health disorders, and other complications in pregnancy. Written by noted educator and practitioner Elizabeth Stepp Gilbert, RNC, MS, FNP-BC, CNS, this book also describes how to screen for risk factors, provide preventive management, and intervene appropriately when problems arise. It's a concise, hands-on reference for both inpatient and outpatient settings! A consistent format makes this book a practical, hands-on reference in the clinical setting, presenting problems with the following headings: incidence, etiology, physiology, pathophysiology, and medical management. Comprehensive coverage includes physiologic considerations, fetal assessment, perinatal screening, ethical and legal issues, health disorders during pregnancy, complications, and labor and delivery issues. Up-to-date content includes integrative therapy, domestic violence, multiple gestation, genetics, nutrition, culture, risk management, and all the latest screening tools. A section on ethical and legal considerations covers ethical decision making, legal issues, and risk management.Updated evidence-based content includes the latest AHWONN standards of practice. Patient safety and risk management strategies include updated approaches to improving outcomes, reducing complications, and increasing patient safety during high risk pregnancy and delivery. New Venous Thromboembolic Disease chapter provides current information on this increasingly common condition. Information on the latest assessment and monitoring devices keeps you current with today's technology. Standardized terminology and definitions from the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) lead to accurate and precise communication.

Table of Contents

Physiologic Considerations, Assessments, and Integrative Therapies
Physiologic and Nutritional Adaptations to Pregnancy	p. 1
General Nursing Assessment of the High Risk Expectant Family	p. 25
Assessment of Fetal Well-Being	p. 43
Perinatal Screening, Diagnoses, and Fetal Therapies	p. 88
Integrative Therapies in Pregnancy and Childbirth	p. 107
Psychologic Implications of a High Risk Pregnancy
Psychologic Adaptations	p. 128
Perinatal Death and Bereavement Care	p. 149
Ethical Dilemmas and Legal Considerations in Perinatal Nursing
Ethical Decision Making	p. 170
Legal Issues and Risk Management	p. 181
Health Disorders Complicating Pregnancy
Diabetes	p. 200
Cardiac Disease	p. 243
Renal Disease	p. 258
Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases	p. 271
Venous Thromboembolic Disease	p. 282
Pulmonary Disease and Respiratory Distress	p. 289
Complications in Pregnancy
Spontaneous Abortion	p. 311
Ectopic Pregnancy	p. 331
Gestational Trophoblastic Disease	p. 351
Placental Abnormalities	p. 364
Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation	p. 395
Hemolytic Incompatibility	p. 402
Hypertensive Disorders	p. 416
Preterm Labor and Multiple Gestation	p. 460
Premature Rupture of Membranes	p. 488
Trauma	p. 500
Teratogens and Social Issues Complicating Pregnancy
Sexually and Nonsexually Transmitted Genitourinary Infections	p. 519
Substance Abuse	p. 558
Alterations in the Mechanism of Labor
Labor Stimulation	p. 582
Dysfunctional Labor	p. 610
Prolonged Pregnancy	p. 660
Index	p. 671
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