Obstetric Emergencies A Practical Guide /

• Main Author: Ayres-de-Campos, Diogo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Obstetrics.; Maternal and child health services.; Medicine & Public Health.; Obstetrics/Perinatology.; Maternal and Child Health.

This book provides a practical guide to the management of obstetric emergencies – acute complications during pregnancy and childbirth that pose a life-threatening risk to the mother and/or the fetus, and whose treatment requires an almost immediate response from the healthcare team in order to guara...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Acute fetal hypoxia (including umbilical cord prolapse)
• Uterine rupture and major placental abruption
• Shoulder dystocia
• Eclampsia
• Retention of the aftercoming head
• Maternal cardio-respiratory arrest
• Amniotic fluid embolism
• Pulmonary thromboembolism
• Major obstetric haemorrhage
• Simulation-based training of obstetric emergencies.