Evidence-based Care for Normal Labour and Birth: A guide for midwives
Evidence-based Care for Normal Labour and Birth: A guide for midwives Books
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Evidence-based care is a well customary principle in contemporary healthcare and a world wide health care movement. But, despite the emphasis on promoting evidence-based or effective care without the unnecessary use of technologies and drugs, intervention rates in childbirth are rising rapidly.
Evidence-based Care for Normal Labour and Birth brings to light much of the evidence nearly what works best for normal birth which has, until now, remained largely hidden and ignored by maternity care professionals. Beginning with the choice about where to have a baby, through all the phases of labour to the immediate post-birth period, it systematically details research and other evidence sources that endorse a low intervention approach. The book:
- highlights where the evidence is compelling
- discusses its application where women question its relevance to them and where the practitioner’s expertise leads them to challenge it
- gives background and context before discussing the research to date
- includes questions for reflection and do recommendations generated from the evidence.
Using research data, Evidence-based Care for Normal Labour and Birth critiques institutionalised, scientifically managed birth and endorses a more humane midwifery-led develop. Packed with up-to-date and relevant in rank, this controversial book will help all students, practising midwives and doulas keep abreast of the evidence surrounding normal birth and make sure their do takes full advantage of it.
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With this guide to evidenced-based maternity care, Denis Walsh makes available research on every aspect of labor and birth care and presents it in a way that helps practitioners incorporate the latest evidence into do. His chapters include “Do recommendations” as well as “Questions for reflection” that will stimulate discussion in both the classroom and the clinical setting. Even as the title refers to this book as “a guide for midwives”, it is equally helpful for family doctors or obstetricians who attend births.
Rating: 5 / 5
Brilliant! Evidence based and simple to read, this book is a must-read for midwife students, midwives, physicians, nurses and all other women’s health care providers! The author’s candid style and earnest application of evidence will exchange your thought (or reinforce your suspicions) about current obstetric practices.
Rating: 5 / 5
Denis Walsh, midwife, midwifery consultant, and lecturer in the United Kingdom, believes profoundly in midwifery-led care and in the rhythmic course of physiological labor and birth. In his book, Evidence-Based Care for Normal Labour and Birth: A Guide for Midwives, addressing the relatively new evidence-based care paradigm, he seeks to expand the definition of “evidence” so that qualitative research gains credibility in a technological world enamored of quantification. He reminds readers of the huge collection of knowledge, ancient and modern, that qualifies as authentic evidence — an extensive body of research supporting the natural physiology of labor and birth; midwives’ intuitive and observational powers; and the unique tales, feelings, and reactions of birthing women throughout the ages. Much of this wisdom is in danger of being lost, submerged by the modern focus on technology and childbirth pathology that so many practitioners and childbearing women are struggling with each day.
Throughout, Walsh illustrates his points with studies and articles, suggesting the many areas that that call out for further exploration, and challenging readers to find ways to keep vital knowledge alive. Each chapter ends with “Do Recommendations and Questions for Reflection.”.
Among so many vital issues, Walsh discusses “Evidence-based care: the new accepted view for maternity services,” and acknowledges the proliferation of systematic reviews “embraced…with an nearly evangelistic fervour.” He critiques them, noting that many are politically laden efforts carried out hostile to a background of increasing medicalization. Most research bypasses women’s vital concerns, performed as it is in sickbay settings theme to time pressures, institutional constraints and set of laws, and mediated by power differences both within professional groups, and between professionals and women. He then contrasts the woman-centered “social” develop of care with the large- scale “toxic” biomedical develop. All the even as he advocates for midwives’ autonomy as they work in partnership with colleagues and with the women they serve.
This is an INVALUABLE guide for childbearing women, practitioners and obstetrical policy makers.
Rating: 5 / 5
Working as a midwife in sickbay meens negotiating the landmines of intervention with women to make sure that birth can be “normal”. Denis Walsh examines the evidence for routine CTG monitoring, the labour progress develop, active mamagement of third stage and definitions and management of blood loss etc to question our understanding of what is normal.
Current medical interventionalist models view birth as normal only in retrospect. Midwives know that birthing women show many types of “normal”. READ THIS BOOK AND START ASKING THE QUESTIONS OF YOURSELF AND YOUR PRACTICE. Do we really have the evidence for what we do? Is this kind of evidence able to allow for examination of womens experience of the interventions and their impact on their birthing? There is lots of work to be done to know what is normal.
Rating: 5 / 5