Postnatal and neonatal midwifery skills : survival guide.
- 2nd edition.
- 1 online resource (92 pages)
- Nursing and Health Survival Guides .
- Nursing and Health Survival Guides .
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY -- Fetal circulation -- Four main structures which differ from adult circulation -- Extra features -- At birth -- Involution -- Lochia -- Breast -- BEREAVEMENT - DEALING WITH THE LOSS OF A BABY -- BLOOD VALUES -- Electrolytes -- Blood gases -- Thyroid function tests -- Haematology -- BOTTLE FEEDING -- Sterilisation of feeding equipment -- Cold water sterilising -- Boiling -- Electric steam sterilising -- Microwaves -- Dishwasher sterilising -- Making up formula feeds -- Other tips -- BREASTFEEDING -- Physiology of lactation -- Breast changes in pregnancy -- Milk production -- Tips -- Advantages of breastfeeding -- For the baby -- For the woman -- Steps to aid successful breastfeeding -- Hand expression -- Procedure -- Breast milk storage -- CALCULATING FEED REQUIREMENTS -- CHANGING STOOLS AND NUMBER OF WET/DIRTY NAPPIES -- CONTRACEPTION -- CORD CARE -- DEVELOPMENTAL CARE -- DISCHARGE - POINTS FOR DISCUSSION -- DRUGS FOR NEONATES -- Vitamin K - (phytomenadione) -- Naloxone -- Hepatitis B immunoglobulin -- BCG -- EMERGENCIES -- Secondary post-partum haemorrhage (PPH -- SEPSIS -- Signs requiring urgent referral by ambulance/immediate review by a doctor -- Recommendations -- Management (including the sepsis 6 bundle) -- Septic shock -- FLUID BALANCE -- Recording fluid balance -- HYPOGLYCAEMIA IN THE NEWBORN -- Management -- MODIFIED OBSTETRIC EARLY WARNING SYSTEM (MEOWS) -- NEONATAL EXAMINATION -- Procedure -- NEWBORN AND INFANT PHYSICAL EXAMINATION (NIPE) -- Key principles -- Screen positive -- Eye -- Heart -- Neurological examination -- Examination of the hips -- Testes -- NEONATAL JAUNDICE -- Physiology (a brief description) -- Physiological jaundice -- Signs and symptoms -- Assessment and management. Pathological jaundice -- Phototherapy -- NEONATAL SCREENING -- Hearing tests -- Serum bilirubin -- Neonatal blood spot -- Procedure -- POST BIRTH CARE -- Initial general care -- Post instrumental -- Post caesarean section -- Subsequent postnatal examinations -- SKIN-TO-SKIN -- SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME (SIDS) -- Advice to parents -- SUPPORT GROUPS -- THERMOREGULATION OF THE NEWBORN -- Routes of heat loss -- Avoid heat loss -- Transient tachypnoea of the newborn (TTN) -- REFERENCES.