Use this outline to guide your study and reading. You should know the concepts outlined. Tip: Write down or type up your understanding of everything outlined for your own records.
Objectives:
- Explain options for labor pain management
- Understand the benefits and risks of labor interventions
- Analyze the most common reasons for cesarean births
Study
Book – Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn
- Chapter 13, “Medications for Pain Relief during Labor”, p 256
- Chapter 14, “When Childbirth Becomes Complicated”, p 272
- Chapter 15, “All About Cesarean Birth”, p 298
A. Labor Interventions
- IV fluids
- Heparin lock
- Monitoring fetal heart rate
- Amniotomy/AROM
- Episiotomy
- Vacuum
- Forceps
B. Induction
- Common reasons
- Elective induction
- Non-medical ways to induce
- Medical methods of induction
C. Medications
- Systemic medications
- Narcotics
- Perineal block
- Epidural
- Spinal block
- Combined spinal-epidural
- Patient controlled epidural analgesia
- Light epidural
D. Cesarean Birth
Resources: go to International Cesarean Awareness Network
- Common reasons for cesareans
- Benefits of cesareans
- Risks of cesareans
- Cesarean procedure
- Recovery from cesarean
- Vaginal birth after cesarean
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