Labor and Delivery: An Emergency Reference, Second Edition

This is the second edition of a pocket guide that covers nursing obstetrical practice. Your students and nurses new to L&D will rely on the vaginal exam explanations, comfort measures and medication briefs. (100+ L&D medications are covered) Your seasoned professionals will learn from the critical assessment and treatment sections such as thyroid storm, diabetic coma, anaphylaxis, post-surgical assessment and bronchospasm.It starts off with ACLS guidelines and cardiac rhythm determination flow charts. (This section includes Dopamine and other pressors!) If your crew is like most L&D staffs they use their ACLS sporadically at best. It also covers the basics of NRP before launching into basic obstetrical practice.The twelve-page Spanish section will allow your nurses to cover such basics as admission, labor, birth, emergencies, postpartum and baby care with their Spanish speaking patients.Martineau, Nancy is the author of 'Labor and Delivery: An Emergency Reference, Second Edition', published 2003 under ISBN 9780970894823 and ISBN 0970894821.