Midwifery Practice: Critical Illness, Complications and Emergencies

Part of a case book series, this book contains 14 common pregnancy and childbirth emergency scenarios to help prepare student midwives for life in practice. Each case explores and explains the pathology, pharmacology and care principles, and uses test questions and answers to help assess learning. The practical cases link theory to practice and their grounding in reality will really help bring midwifery to life.

The book also:

Covers the principles, pathology and skills involved in a range of birthing scenarios

Acts as a useful aide memoire when simulating managing care procedures

Demonstrates the importance of inter-professional team working in problem-solving

Uses tables, diagrams and textboxes throughout, which act as a useful reference point

Midwifery Practice is essential reading for student midwives, medical students and paramedics and a valuable resource for health professionals pursuing postgraduate studies in high dependency/critical care. It is also beneficial to the facilitation of maternity based OSCEs.