Medical Conditions Affecting Pregnancy and Childbirth

Name: Medical Conditions Affecting Pregnancy and Childbirth
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780367027407
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By Maureen Boyle and Judy Bothamley

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Medical Conditions Affecting Pregnancy and Childbirth by Maureen Boyle and Judy Bothamley is a comprehensive guide addressing the challenges posed by medical conditions such as cardiac disease, obesity, and diabetes during pregnancy. This updated edition offers practical solutions for midwives, emphasising promoting normality wherever possible. It covers physiology, condition explanations, and care principles from preconception to the postnatal period, featuring a new chapter on obesity and including laboratory and diagnostic test details alongside illustrative colour images.
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This book is essential for student midwives seeking foundational knowledge and practising midwives needing a reliable reference on managing complex pregnancies complicated by medical conditions.

Midwives are encountering more and more women whose pregnancies are complicated by medical conditions. This second edition is completely up-to-date and offers highly practical solutions for everyday practice.

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Midwives are encountering more and more women whose pregnancies are complicated by medical conditions, including cardiac disease, obesity, and diabetes. This new edition is completely up-to-date and offers highly practical solutions for everyday midwifery practice, acknowledging the importance of promoting normality where possible.

This text includes physiology, explanations of conditions, and principles of care for preconception, pregnancy, labour, birth, and the postnatal period. Each chapter brings together the basic knowledge of a condition and how it changes during pregnancy in an integrated and accessible way, including a new chapter dedicated to obesity. Explanations of laboratory tests, diagnostic tests, common drugs, and illustrative colour pictures are included in relevant chapters.

Medical Conditions Affecting Pregnancy and Childbirth is a vital guide for student midwives, as well as a useful reference for practising midwives.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367027407

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 September 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Edition: 2nd edition

Illustration: 23 Tables, black and white; 44 Line drawings, black and white; 44 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 760g

Pages: 366

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Education & Reference Health & Wellness Judy Bothamley Maureen Boyle Non-Fiction

About the Author

Judy Bothamley is Senior Lecturer in Midwifery at the University of West London, UK.

Maureen Boyle is Senior Lecturer in Midwifery at the University of West London, UK.