Critical Care in Childbearing for Midwives [Paperback]

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.Chapter 1. Introduction.

Defining critical care, Midwives caring for critically ill women, Critical care in childbearing for midwives.

Chapter 2. A team approach to providing care for the critically ill woman.

Rationale behind a midwifery high dependency team, Setting up a midwifery high dependency team, Does a midwifery high dependency team make a difference?, Conclusion.

Chapter 3. Autonomous practice: a critical investigation.

What is autonomy?, Promoting autonomy in maternity care, Professional autonomy, Conclusion.

Chapter 4. Medical disorders and the critically ill woman.

Cardiac disorders, Respiratory disorders, Renal disorders, Hepatic disorders, Diabetes mellitus, Thyroid dlC‹