Product Description

This fourth edition of this ABC has been thoroughly updated and revised with new photographs and illustrations.
This ABC addresses some of the current most controversial issues such as the role of the midwife and GP, need for decentralisation of management, home births and screening and will be invaluable to GPs, medical students, midwives, nurses and trainee obstetricians.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #421108 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 92 pages

Review
"Refreshing and stimulating...invaluable" – Maternal and Child Health

Maternal and Child Health
"Refreshing and stimulating - invaluable"

From the Back Cover
This fourth edition of this ABC has been thoroughly updated and revised with new photographs and illustrations.
This ABC addresses some of the current most controversial issues such as the role of the midwife and GP, need for decentralisation of management, home births and screening and will be invaluable to GPs, medical students, midwives, nurses and trainee obstetricians.

Customer Reviews

Not for Student midwives
Don't waste your bursary on this book. It is poorly written in parts and is certainly not evidence based. The information provided is not based on NICE or RCOG guidelines or Cochrane reviews. I'm not really sure who the book is aimed at, but it is certainly no use for a student midwife who needs to work within current evidence-based practice.

Simple advice for all
You know, this book isn't half bad. It's a little simple in places, but overall it's a staraightforward look at those crucial weeks before birth. Screening tests? They're here, and explained. Guidelines? Perhaps not absolutely current, but you can get those from the Internet. This gives you an understanding of what happens, rather than slavishly following a protocol that happens to be in vogue currently.

Recommended for all with an interest in the antenatal stage: medical students, doctors, student midwives, and even the public.

ABC of antenatal care
Am extremely disappointed. Topics are rather vague, basic and short. If I'd picked this off the shelf, so to speak, I would never have bought it. Mayes midwifery is far more informative.