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• Title:[Textbook for midwives (Churchill Livingstone)]
  Myles textbook for midwives.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Marshall, Jayne E.
  Raynor, Maureen D.
  
• Published/Created:Edinburgh ; New York : Saunders/Elsevier, 2014.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WQ165 .M9971 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Midwifery.
  
• Medical Subjects: Midwifery.
  Women's Health.
  
• Edition:Sixteenth edition / edited by Jayne E. Marshall, PhD, MA, PGCEA, ADM, RM, RGN, Head of School of Midwifery and Child Health, Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education, St. Georges, University of London/Kingston University, UK, Former Associate Professor in Midwifery, Director for Postgraduate Taught Studies in Midwifery, University of Nottingham, Academic Division of Midwifery, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Postgraduate Education Centre, Nottingham, UK, Maureen D. Raynor, MA, PGCEA, ADM, RMN, RN, RM, Lecturer and Supervisor of Midwives, University of Nottingham, Academic Division of Midwifery, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Postgraduate Education Centre, Nottingham, UK ; foreword by Emeritus Professor Diane M. Fraser.
  
• Description:xvii, 780 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
  
• Summary:The sixteenth edition of this seminal textbook, Myles Textbook for Midwives, has been extensively revised and restructured to ensure that it reflects current midwifery practice, with an increased focus on topics that are fundamental to midwifery practice today. The book comes with Elsevier EVOLVE ancillaries - an online learning package which consists of 500 self-assessment questions and answers and a fully downloadable image bank. Designed to enable midwifery practitioners to provide safe and competent care, which is tailored to the patient s individual needs Extensively illustrated to assist visual learning with additional pull out textboxes to highlight key information Streamlined chapters with similar themes and approach help consolidate learning Reflects all modern midwifery curricula by presenting a strong emphasis on evidenced-based practice and the use of technology Over 500 on-line multiple-choice questions to enable readers to test their knowledge Offers a full image bank of downloadable illustrations to assist with personal projects and/or further learning References, Further Reading and Useful Websites promote further learning Glossary of Terms and Acronyms provide simple definitions of more complex terminologies Full colour illustrations now used throughout the book, in response to student feedback Contains many new chapters, some of which are authored by members of the multi-professional team Up-to-date guidance on professional regulation, midwifery supervision, legal and ethical issues, risk management and clinical governance Recognition that midwives increasingly care for women with complex health needs, in a multicultural society Examination of the dilemmas involved in caring for women with a raised body mass index Chapter on optimising care of the perineum for women with perineal trauma, including those who have experienced female genital mutilation Guidance to support the trend for midwives to undertake the neonatal physical examination of the healthy term infant Additional coverage of basic neonatal resuscitation.
  
• Notes:Revision of: Textbook for midwives.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780702051456 (pbk)
  0702051454 (pbk)
  9780702051463 (international)
  0702051462 (international)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: SECTION 1 midwife in context
  1. midwife in contemporary midwifery practice
  2. Professional issues concerning the midwife and midwifery practice
  SECTION 2 Human anatomy and reproduction
  3. female pelvis and the reproductive organs
  4. female urinary tract
  5. Hormonal cycles: fertilization and early development
  6. placenta
  7. fetus
  SECTION 3 Pregnancy
  8. Antenatal education for birth and parenting
  9. Change and adaptation in pregnancy
  10. Antenatal care
  11. Antenatal screening of the mother and fetus
  12. Common problems associated with early and advanced pregnancy
  13. Medical conditions of significance to midwifery practice
  14. Multiple pregnancy
  SECTION 4 Labour
  15. Care of the perineum, repair and female genital mutilation
  16. Physiology and care during the first stage of labour
  17. Physiology and care during the transition and second stage phases of labour
  18. Physiology and care during the third stage of labour
  19. Prolonged pregnancy and disorders of uterine action
  20. Malpositions of the occiput and malpresentations
  21. Operative births
  22. Midwifery and obstetric emergencies
  SECTION 5 Puerperium
  23. Physiology and care during the puerperium
  24. Physical health problems and complications in the puerperium
  25. Perinatal mental health
  26. Bereavement and loss in maternity care
  27. Contraception and sexual health in a global society
  SECTION 6 neonate
  28. Recognizing the healthy baby at term through examination of the newborn screening
  29. Resuscitation of the healthy baby at birth: the importance of drying, airway management and establishment of breathing
  30. healthy low birth weight baby
  31. Trauma during birth, haemorrhages and convulsions
  32. Congenital malformations
  33. Significant problems in the newborn baby
  34. Infant feeding.