Get ready to enhance your expertise in the world of childbirth with Simkin's Labor Progress Handbook — a trusted resource tailored for childbirth medical practitioners

This invaluable guide unravels the complexities of labor, equipping you with practical strategies to overcome challenges encountered along the way. Inside this comprehensive book, you'll discover a wealth of low-technology, evidence-based interventions designed to prevent and manage difficult or prolonged labors. Grounded in research and practical experience, these approaches are tailored by doulas and clinicians to provide optimal care and achieve successful outcomes.

The fifth edition of this prestigious text includes information on:

Labor dystocia causes and early interventions and strategies promoting normal labor and birth
Application of fetal heart rate monitoring (intermittent auscultation, continuous electronic fetal monitoring, and wireless telemetry) while promoting movement and labor progress
The role of oxytocin and labor progress, and ethical considerations in oxytocin administration
Prolonged prelabor and latent first through fourth stage labor, addressing factors associated with dystocia
Positions, comfort measures and respectful care

With meticulous referencing and clear, practical instructions throughout, Simkin's Labor Progress Handbook continues to be a timely and accessible guide for novices and experts alike, including doulas, nurses, midwives, physicians, and students.

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Simkin’s Labor Progress Handbook Early Interventions to Prevent and Treat Dystocia
Contents
List of Contributors
Foreword
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Respectful Care
Chapter 3: Normal Labor and Labor Dystocia: General Considerations
Chapter 4: Assessing Progress in Labor
Chapter 5: Role of Physiologic and Pharmacologic Oxytocin in Labor Progress
Chapter 6: Prolonged Prelabor and Latent First Stage
Chapter 7: Prolonged Active Phase
Chapter 8: Prevention and Treatment of Prolonged Second Stage of Labor
Chapter 9: Optimal Newborn Transition and Third and Fourth Stage Labor Management
Chapter 10: Epidural and Other Forms of Neuraxial Analgesia for Labor: Review of Effects, with Emphasis on Preventing Dystocia
Chapter 11: Guide to Positions and Movements
Chapter 12: Guide to Comfort Measures
Index
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