Results 271 to 280 of about 1,062,061 (327)
Obstetric Anesthesia: Outside the Labor and Delivery Unit [PDF]
Anesthesiology Clinics, 2008 The maternal mortality rate in the United States has stagnated for the past 2 decades. To further lower morbidity and mortality, we must take a broader perspective. When a pregnant woman is treated in a nonobstetric part of the hospital, care must adapt quickly to her special needs.
Laurence C. Torsher, Paula Craigo
openaire +2 more sources
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.
Related searches:
Related searches:
Obstetric anesthesia: Not just for cesareans and labor
Seminars in Perinatology, 2014The scope of obstetric anesthesia practice ranges far beyond the delivery of care to women for vaginal and cesarean deliveries. Increasingly, obstetric anesthesiologists are involved in the management of anesthetics for new procedures and for new indications.
S. R. Goodman, Jaime Aaronson
openaire +3 more sources
Traditional Obstetric Pelvimetry in Delivery and Labor
2021In a time when decreasing the number of unnecesary surgeries is of great interest, understanding normal labor, dystocic labor, and when to intervine in order to improve the fetal and maternal outcome is of utmost importance. In the following chapter we describe the history of pelvimetry, the previously characterized types of pelvis and their ...
Kfier Kuba +2 more
openaire +2 more sources
Violence against Women, 2021
With the growing concern of human rights in health, the word “violence” is being used to describe apparent disrespectful treatment received by women by either health care practitioners or health care systems.
Maura Lappeman, L. Swartz
semanticscholar +1 more source
With the growing concern of human rights in health, the word “violence” is being used to describe apparent disrespectful treatment received by women by either health care practitioners or health care systems.
Maura Lappeman, L. Swartz
semanticscholar +1 more source
Measurement of Uterine Forces in Obstetrical Labor
Review of Scientific Instruments, 1958An electronic spherometer is described, which has been used clinically for the measurement of uterine forces during obstetrical labor. The transducer, which is taped to the surface of the abdomen, senses change in the radius of curvature of the uterus, and sends a signal from a strain gauge bridge through an amplifier-detector to a recorder.
Thomas I. Marx, Charles A. Hunter
openaire +2 more sources
Obstetric practice guidelines: labor’s love lost?
The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, 2018Implementation of clinical practice guidelines may moderate health care costs, improve care, reduce medicolegal liability, and provide a uniformity in care allowing meaningful investigation of treatments and outcomes. However, new guidelines are often uncritically embraced by clinicians, risk management organizations, insurance companies, and the ...
Emanuel A. Friedman, Wayne R. Cohen
openaire +3 more sources
Evidence-Based Clinical Hypnosis for Obstetrics, Labor and Delivery, and Preterm Labor
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 2007This paper reviews the benefits and effectiveness of hypnosis in obstetrics and labor and delivery, demonstrating significant reductions in the use of analgesics and anesthesia and in shorter Stages 1 and 2 labors. It presents empirical and theoretical rationales for use of hypnosis in preterm labor (PTL) and labor and delivery at term. The benefits of
D. Corydon Hammond, Donald Corey Brown
openaire +3 more sources
Obstetrical Analgesics and Anesthesia: Methods of Relief for the Patient in Labor
The American Journal of Nursing, 1977You are taking care of a woman in active labor who is complaining of severe pain. The physician orders 75 mg. of meperidine (Demerol) IM stat. Forty-five minutes later he tells you that the patient needs a cesarean section, and asks you to have the patient sign the consent form for the operation. Should you do it?
Rae Krohn Grad, Jack Woodside
openaire +3 more sources
ACOG Practice Bulletin No. 209: Obstetric Analgesia and Anesthesia.
Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2019Labor causes severe pain for many women. There is no other circumstance in which it is considered acceptable for an individual to experience untreated severe pain that is amenable to safe intervention while the individual is under a physician's care ...
semanticscholar +1 more source
Gestational Age and the Management of Preterm Labor in Obstetric Programs
American Journal of Perinatology, 1985The gestational age at which obstetric training programs aggressively manage and attempt to salvage preterm vertex fetuses in distress was determined by survey. More than half the programs initiate fetal monitoring and perform cesarean section for certain cases of fetal distress by 26 weeks gestational age.
Kathleen G. Nelson +4 more
openaire +3 more sources