Manual Of Obstetric Emergencies 1st Valerie A Dobiesz Kathleen A Kerrigan by Valerie A. Dobiesz, Kathleen A. Kerrigan 9781496399069, 1496399064 instant download after payment.

It is with great pride and immense joy that we present the first edition of the Manual of Obstetric
Emergencies. This book represents the culmination of years of dedication and effort to improve maternal
health in the emergency setting and a unique collaboration of physicians from emergency medicine and
obstetrics and gynecology. Our collective goal is to provide a valuable and practical evidence-based
resource for health care providers to access in their time of need when caring for both pregnant women
throughout the pregnancy continuum as well as neonates after a precipitous delivery.
As emergency medicine providers, we are taught to manage normal uncomplicated births during ourclinical training with the complex cases being immediately relegated to our obstetrics colleagues. The
reality is that post training when we are working in our clinical practices we may be called upon to
manage the most complicated of deliveries with little time to prepare. Births in the emergency department
are low frequency but high-risk events. Our hope is that this manual will benefit the providers, mothers,
and neonates who find themselves in these unplanned situations.
As hospitals across the United States are losing obstetric services or closing, the chance of aprecipitous delivery in the emergency department will likely increase. Less than half of women in rural
areas are within 30 minutes of a hospital providing obstetric services. Practitioners working in these
emergency settings may be called upon to manage very complex obstetric emergencies without any
advanced warning, training, or practice.
Improving maternal health, especially the care provided in the emergency setting, is paramount and thedriving force for creating this book. It is essential to have knowledgeable and well-trained health care
providers in order to achieve this goal as the stakes are high when there are two patients involved. We
hope this will be a useful resource and guide