DESCRIPTION:
In light of new recommendations for intrapartum care, this fully updated second edition offers a review of best practice in all aspects of labour and delivery. This authoritative guide incorporates revised recommendations from the latest MBRRACE-UK Report, NICE guidelines, Cochrane Reviews and RCOG Green-top Guidelines to provide advice that is in line with the latest research and practice. New chapters cover the aspects of non-technical skills, ranging from leadership and team work to situational awareness and decision making. This edition also emphasises the problem of adherent placenta and discusses how it should be managed. With its modern, evidence-based approach, Best Practice in Labour and Delivery is the ideal textbook for those training in labour ward practice and studying for postgraduate examinations. Offering clear and practical guidance, this comprehensive book will help all obstetricians, obstetric anaesthetists, midwives and nurse practitioners to understand and deliver the best clinical care to patients.

- Every chapter has been rewritten after reviewing the subject in the latest MBRACCE-UK Report, Cochrane database, RCOG Green-top and other guidelines - completely up to date and authoritative
- The book has been mapped on the curriculum and syllabus of the Advanced Training Skills Module on intrapartum care for MRCOG trainees - this makes it an ideal book for O&G specialist trainees and midwives
- Several new diagrams and pictures have been added to the chapters in the book, making the text more accessible - easier to understand the topic being discussed

CONTENTS:
1. Pelvic and fetal cranial anatomy and stages and mechanism of labour
2. The first stage of labour
3. Analgesia and anaesthesia in labour
4. Intrapartum fetal monitoring
5. Uterine contractions
6. The management of intrapartum ""fetal distress""
7. Nutrition and hydration in labour
8. Prolonged second stage of labour including difficult decision-making on operative vaginal delivery and caesarean section
9. Instrumental vaginal deliveries: indications, techniques and complications
10. Caesarean deliveries: indications, techniques and complications
11. Breech and twin delivery
12. Cord prolapse and shoulder dystocia
13. Antepartum haemorrhage
14. Management of the third stage of labour
15. Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH)
16. Management of morbidly adherent placenta
17. Acute illness and maternal collapse in the postpartum period
18. Episiotomy and obstetric perineal trauma
19. Induction of labour
20. Preterm prelabour rupture of membranes (pPROM)
21. The management of preterm labour
22. Labour in women with medical disorders
23. Management of women with previous caesarean section
24. Rupture of the uterus
25. Management of severe pre-eclampsia/eclampsia
26. Neonatal resuscitation and the management of immediate neonatal problems
27. The immediate puerperium
28. Triage and prioritization in a busy labour
29. Risk management in intrapartum care
30. Teamworking, skills and drills on the labour ward
31. Cerebral palsy arising from events in labour
32. Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills (OSATS) in obstetrics
33. Non-technical skills to improve obstetric practice