BookValerie A. Dobiesz, Kathleen A. Kerrigan.
Summary: "Manual of Emergency Medicine Obstetrics provides a practical overview of all trimesters in a convenient manual format. Nearly two dozen expert contributors representing both emergency medicine and obstetrics offer evidence-based treatment and management guidelines for virtually any situation you may encounter, providing a unique emergency medicine perspective on best practices for high-risk, high-stress obstetric situations in the ED"--Publisher's description.
Contents:
Section I: General overview in pregnancy. Physiologic changes in pregnancy
Drug therapy in pregnancy
Venous thromboembolism in pregnancy
Airway management in pregnancy
Trauma in pregnancy
Management of common medical comorbidities during pregnancy
Management of common surgical conditions during pregnancy
Ultrasound in obstetric emergencies
Section II: EMS management of obstetric emergencies. Active labor and out-of-hospital delivery
Prehospital management of obstetric bleeding
Section III: Early pregnancy (<weeks). Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy
Vaginal bleeding in the first trimester of pregnancy
Ectopic pregnancy
Gestational trophoblastic disease
Section IV: Later pregnancy (>weeks). Preparation for precipitous delivery
Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy
Peripartum cardiomyopathy
Preterm labor
Prelabor rupture of membranes
Placental abnormalities
Section V: Delivery. Normal vaginal deliveries
Breech deliveries
Twin deliveries
Emergency hysterotomy
Umbilical cord abnormalities
Shoulder dystocia
Section VI: Emergencies after delivery. Postpartum hemorrhage
Uterine inversion and uterine rupture
Amniotic fluid embolism
Postpartum infections
This section is expanded section vii: care of the mother and newborn
Resuscitation of the newborn.