Family medicine obstetrics
By: [edited by] Stephen D. Ratcliffe ... [et al.].
Contributors: Ratcliffe, Stephen D., 1952-
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Mosby
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadephia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 707
ISBN-13: 9780323043069
Subjects: Obstetrics -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Family medicine -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Obstetrics -- Handbooks; Family Practice -- Handbooks
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Handbooks.
Other titles: Family practice obstetrics.
Description: Whether you offer comprehensive pregnancy care in your primary care facility, or provide prenatal and postpartum care, this book delivers the guidance you need to optimize health for both mothers and their babies. It covers all aspects of birth care, from preconception counseling and prenatal care, through labor and delivery (both low-risk and complicated), to postpartum care and the first month of life. The completely revised third edition includes the most up-to- date, evidence-based standards of care. It offers information that is patient centered, prevention oriented, educational, and sensitive to the care of the whole woman and her family. Features a reader-friendly outline/narrative format for ease of use in daily clinical practice. Describes how to care for patients with a wide range of medical conditions during pregnancy as well as pregnancy-related conditions. Takes a whole-family approach to maternity care, with discussions of maternal and paternal adjustment, marital adjustment, sibling adjustment, single-parent families, and return-to-work issues. Provides patient and family education materials on a full range of topics, from nutrition in pregnancy to breastfeeding. Features a section on alternative medicine in maternity care. Provides detailed instruction for a wide array of procedures, including cesarean delivery, perineal repair of simple and complex lacerations, circumcision, assisted deliveries, and amnioinfusion.
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Family practice obstetrics.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Improving safety and quality in maternity care / Henry A. Taylor; title: Preconception care: improving birth outcomes through care before pregnancy / Josephine R. Fowler, Brian W. Jack; title: Content of prenatal care; title: Patient and family education; title: Pregnancy interventions; title: Diagnosis and management of first-trimester complications; title: Complications of pregnancy; title: Chronic medical conditions in pregnancy; title: Commonly encountered medical problems in pregnancy; title: Treatment of psychiatric disorders in pregnancy / Ellen l. Sakornbut; title: Antenatal fetal surveillance and management of the postterm pregnancy; title: Preterm labor; title: Birth crisis: caring for the family experiencing perinatal death or the birth of a child with medical complications / Elizabeth G. Baxley; title: Management of labor; title: Management of labor abnormalities; title: Intrapartum complications; title: Malpresentations and malpositions; title: Intrapartum procedures; title: The first month of life; title: Postpartum biomedical concerns: breastfeeding; title: Postpartum psychosocial concerns / Dwenda S. Gjerdingen, Elizabeth Ann Shaw, Sharon S.-L. Wong.