BookElizabeth Stepp Gilbert.
Summary: As the only book of its kind, this text provides a complete resource for care of the high risk patient and her complex needs. It helps you provide the best care and increase positive outcomes with coverage of today's newest technology, physiologic considerations, psychologic implications, health disorders, and other complications in pregnancy. This book also describes how to screen for risk factors, provide preventive management, and intervene appropriately when problems arise. It's a concise, hands-on reference for both inpatient and outpatient settings. --Book Jacket.
Contents:
Physiologic and nutritional adaptations to pregnancy
General nursing assessment of the high risk expectant family
Assessment of fetal well-being
Perinatal screening, diagnoses, and fetal therapies
Integrative therapies in pregnancy and childbirth
Psychologic adaptations
Perinatal death and bereavement care
Ethical decision making
Legal issues and risk management
Diabetes
Cardiac disease
Renal disease
Autoimmune rheumatic diseases
Venous thromboembolic disease
Pulmonary disease and respiratory distress
Spontaneous abortion
Ectopic pregnancy
Gestational trophoblastic disease
Placental abnormalities
Disseminated intravascular coagulation
Hemolytic incompatibility
Hypertensive disorders
Preterm labor and multiple gestation
Premature rupture of membranes
Trauma
Sexually and nonsexually transmitted genitourinary infections
Substance abuse
Labor stimulation
Dysfunctional labor
Prolonged pregnancy.