Critical Care in Childbearing for MidwivesISBN: 978-1-4051-1638-1
Paperback
294 pages
March 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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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.