HIV Infection in Pregnancy

Caroline Shepherd, Jane Kennedy (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

80 Seiten

2000 | 2nd Revised edition
Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-898507-86-4 (ISBN)

Infos

A guide for healthcare professionals who work with HIV-positive pregnant women. This new edition places special emphasis on the importance of counselling, the role of antenatal testing, triple therapy in pregnancy, and current debates over breastfeeding and cultural issues.

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Part of a series of handbooks for practising midwives, this volume should be useful for all healthcare professionals who work with HIV-positive women. This new edition includes data, information and recommendations on HIV in pregnancy and places special emphasis on the importance of counselling, the role of antenatal testing, triple therapy in pregnancy, and current debates over breastfeeding and cultural issues.

Inhalt

The HIV virus - epidemiology and classification of infection; safe practice and appropriate care in pregnancy, labour and post partum; obstetric interventions and perinatal transmission; confidentiality, psychosocial and sociological perspectives; feeding and care of the neonate; recommendations on management of infected healthcare workers.

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Midwifery Practice Guide S. ; No. 1
• Überarbeitung: Jane Kennedy
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 124 x 186 mm
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Hebamme / Entbindungspfleger
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Histologie / Embryologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
• ISBN-10: 1-898507-86-4 / 1898507864
• ISBN-13: 978-1-898507-86-4 / 9781898507864
• Zustand: Neuware