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Full-Color PDF Ebook (Digital Download)
This listing is for the full-color PDF ebook of Birth Emergencies for Community Midwives.
(See also the paperback edition and the paperback/ebook combo.)
Birth Emergencies for Community Midwives is an award-winning textbook that addresses the recognition and management of antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum complications, spanning care provided in community birth settings through definitive management in hospitals. Although written primarily for midwives attending community births, the text integrates current evidence with holistic clinical perspectives that support safer maternal, fetal, and neonatal outcomes across practice settings.
Incorporating the latest research and professional guidance, this 554-page textbook includes 320 figures, 81 tables, 24 mnemonics, and numerous highlights and graphics. The full-color PDF format allows optimal viewing of illustrations, tables, and visual teaching tools. Birth Emergencies is the most comprehensive textbook of its kind focused on emergency management in community-based maternity care.
Each chapter begins with clearly stated learning objectives and an instructive case study and concludes with discussion topics designed to anticipate real-world clinical situations.
Topics covered include maternal adaptations to pregnancy; critical thinking and risk assessment; recognizing and managing emergencies; antepartum bleeding; abdominal pain; respiratory distress; trauma; shock; altered level of consciousness; cardiac arrest; hypertensive disorders of pregnancy; preterm birth; preterm prelabor rupture of membranes; malpresentations; multiple gestation; cord prolapse; shoulder dystocia; fetal and neonatal health; neonatal resuscitation; low-birthweight infants; postpartum hemorrhage; differential diagnoses; client relations; intra- and interprofessional relations; midwifery and medicine; transferring care; compassion fatigue and burnout; and building a safer practice.
Bonnie Urquhart Gruenberg, CNM, MSN, CRNP, is the award-winning author of Birth Emergency Skills Training; Manual for Out-of-Hospital Midwives and co-developer of the workshop by the same name. She has attended more than 2,300 births in home, birth center, and hospital settings and currently practices with WellSpan Health in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She has written and illustrated 13 books on midwifery, maternity care, and wild horse management and enjoys pottery, painting, photography, hiking, and hobby farming.
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