The labor progress handbook
Subtitle: early interventions to prevent and treat dystocia
By: Penny Simkin, Ruth Ancheta, with Suzy Myers ; illustrated by Shanna dela Cruz.
Contributors: Ancheta, Ruth.; Myers, Suzy.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405122177
Subjects: Labor (Obstetrics) -- Complications -- Prevention -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Birth injuries -- Prevention -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Dystocia -- prevention & control -- Handbooks; Birth Injuries -- prevention & control -- Handbooks; Labor Complications -- Handbooks
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Handbooks.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dysfunctional labor: general considerations; title: Assessing progress in labor; title: Prolonged pre-labor and latent first stage; title: Prolonged active phase of labor; title: Prolonged second stage of labor; title: The labor progress toolkit: maternal positions and movements; title: The labor progress toolkit: comfort measures.