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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 2016 edition
- Chapter 11, “Labor Pain and Options for Pain Relief”, p 202
- 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
Assignment
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