s. Study Module #8 Childbirth Medications and Interventions

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 2016 edition

  • Chapter 11, “Labor Pain and Options for Pain Relief”, p 202
  • Chapter 15, “All About Cesarean Birth”, p 298

A. Labor Interventions

  1. IV fluids
  2. Heparin lock
  3. Monitoring fetal heart rate
  4. Amniotomy/AROM
  5. Episiotomy
  6. Vacuum
  7. Forceps

B. Induction

  1. Common reasons
  2. Elective induction
  3. Non-medical ways to induce
  4. Medical methods of induction

C. Medications

  1. Systemic medications
  2. Narcotics
  3. Perineal block
  4. Epidural
  5. Spinal block
  6. Combined spinal-epidural
  7. Patient controlled epidural analgesia
  8. Light epidural

D. Cesarean Birth

Resources: go to International Cesarean Awareness Network

  1. Common reasons for cesareans
  2. Benefits of cesareans
  3. Risks of cesareans
  4. Cesarean procedure
  5. Recovery from cesarean
  6. Vaginal birth after cesarean

Assignment

Complete Module Assignment


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