Managing Obstetric Emergencies and Trauma: The MOET Course Manual, 3rd Edition

Obstetric emergencies are unplanned and often unanticipated. Management requires a clear understanding of the life-saving and damage-limiting treatments that can be implemented.

Σημαντικά Χαρακτηριστικά:

• Includes four new chapters: recognising the seriously sick pregnant patient, intravenous access and fluid replacement, medical emergencies and human factors
• Content has been fully updated to reflect current best-practice and treatment guidelines
• Essential reading for all candidates attending the Managing Obstetric Emergencies and Trauma course

Περιεχόμενα:

Part I. Introduction:
Introduction
2. Saving mothers’ lives: lessons from the Confidential Enquiries
3. Structured approach to emergencies in the obstetric patient

Part II. Recognition:
4. Recognising the seriously sick patient
5. Shock
6. Sepsis
7. Intravenous access and fluid replacement

Part III. Resuscitation:
8. Airway management and ventilation
9. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the nonpregnant and pregnant woman
10. Amniotic fluid embolism
11. Pulmonary thromboembolism
12. Resuscitation of the baby at birth

Part IV. Trauma:
13. Introduction to trauma
14. Domestic abuse
15. Thoracic emergencies
16. Abdominal trauma in pregnancy
17. The unconscious patient
18. Spine and spinal cord injuries
19. Musculoskeletal trauma
20. Burns

Part V. Other Medical and Surgical Emergencies in Pregnancy:
21. Abdominal emergencies in pregnancy
22. Cardiac, diabetic and neurological emergencies in pregnancy
23. Perinatal psychiatric illness

Part VI. Obstetric Emergencies:
24. Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia
25. Major obstetric haemorrhage
26. Caesarean section
27. Placenta accreta and retained placenta
28. Uterine inversion
29. Ruptured uterus
30. Ventouse and forceps delivery
31. Shoulder dystocia
32. Umbilical cord prolapse
33. Face presentation
34. Breech delivery and external cephalic version
35. Twin pregnancy
36. Complex perineal and anal sphincter trauma
37. Symphysiotomy and destructive procedures
38. Anaesthetic complications in obstetrics

Part VII. Triage and Transfer:
39. Triage
40. Transfer

Part VIII. Human Issues:
41. Human factors
42. Consent matters

Index.