Many pregnant women who present to a hospital triage area, office, or clinic setting, or seek advice from a midwife by telephone, require early labor assessment. This article reviews parameters for normal and abnormal latent phase labor and discusses triage assessment and management strategies for t
Management of prolonged latent phase labor
โ Scribed by Lauren P. Hunter; Betty Chern-Hughes
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Weight
- 700 KB
- Volume
- 41
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0091-2182
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โฆ Synopsis
Prdonged latent phase labor cm be a physical. emolbnal, and mental challenge for both the woman in labor. her support sys tern. and nurse-midwife. In this article. four nurse-midwiues offcr sugg&ions for coping with this common clinical dilemma.
Labor can be defined as a continuous process of pfcgressiw t33vid effacement and d&ion.
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