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Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 7e
| Section 11. Obstetrics and Gynecology > |
Chapter 105. Emergency Delivery
Sections: Emergency Delivery: Introduction, Transport of Pregnant Patients, ED Preparedness, Evaluation of the Pregnant Patient, Emergency Delivery, Acknowledgment, References.
Topics Discussed: emergency delivery; obstetric delivery.
Excerpt:"The anxiety experienced by emergency physicians caring for a woman
in active labor is not simply due to the lack of familiarity with
normal deliveries but also is due to the awareness of the potential
for serious and rarely fatal complications of labor. In addition,
the initial management of obstetric emergencies such as preeclampsia,
eclampsia, and hemorrhage has major consequences for maternal and
infant survival. It is therefore essential that the emergency physician
becomes familiar with the management of the laboring patient and
prepared for the unlikely event of precipitous delivery in the ED...."
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