Managing Obstetric Emergencies and Trauma
The MOET Course Manual

The revised third edition of this multidisciplinary manual provides essential guidance to all healthcare workers facing obstetric emergencies.

Sara Paterson-Brown (Edited by), Charlotte Howell (Edited by)

9781316611296, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 June 2016

510 pages
29.7 x 21 x 2.2 cm, 1.5 kg

'This book is a concise, well-written, and organized compendium of diagnostic and clinical tools that can be used to assess and manage obstetric emergencies. Improving provider recognition and management of maternal emergencies is of the utmost importance, as maternal mortality remains high, with approximately 330,000 maternal deaths worldwide in 2015 alone. Despite being intended as a course manual, this book is an excellent standalone text and a good resource for perinatal providers both in the United Kingdom and the United States.' J. Bradley Bavaro, Anesthesia and Analgesia

Obstetric emergencies are unplanned and often unanticipated. Management requires a clear understanding of the life-saving and damage-limiting treatments that can be implemented.

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction
2. Saving mothers' lives: lessons from the Confidential Enquiries
3. Structured approach to emergencies in the obstetric patient
Part II. Recognition: 4. Recognising the seriously sick patient
5. Shock
6. Sepsis
7. Intravenous access and fluid replacement
Part III. Resuscitation: 8. Airway management and ventilation
9. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the nonpregnant and pregnant woman
10. Amniotic fluid embolism
11. Pulmonary thromboembolism
12. Resuscitation of the baby at birth
Part IV. Trauma: 13. Introduction to trauma
14. Domestic abuse
15. Thoracic emergencies
16. Abdominal trauma in pregnancy
17. The unconscious patient
18. Spine and spinal cord injuries
19. Musculoskeletal trauma
20. Burns
Part V. Other Medical and Surgical Emergencies in Pregnancy: 21. Abdominal emergencies in pregnancy
22. Cardiac, diabetic and neurological emergencies in pregnancy
23. Perinatal psychiatric illness
Part VI. Obstetric Emergencies: 24. Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia
25. Major obstetric haemorrhage
26. Caesarean section
27. Placenta accreta and retained placenta
28. Uterine inversion
29. Ruptured uterus
30. Ventouse and forceps delivery
31. Shoulder dystocia
32. Umbilical cord prolapse
33. Face presentation
34. Breech delivery and external cephalic version
35. Twin pregnancy
36. Complex perineal and anal sphincter trauma
37. Symphysiotomy and destructive procedures
38. Anaesthetic complications in obstetrics
Part VII. Triage and Transfer: 39. Triage
40. Transfer
Part VIII. Human Issues: 41. Human factors
42. Consent matters
Index.

Subject Areas: Accident & emergency medicine [MMK], Gynaecology & obstetrics [MJT]