High Risk Pregnancy and Child [electronic resource] /

to English edition -- to Czech edition -- The Present State, Mission and Social Significance of Perinatal Medicine -- Perinatal mortality -- Population problems -- Perinatal morbidity -- Economic consequences -- Future prospects -- Screening and Differentiation of the High Risk Pregnancy -- Screening of the high risk pregnancy -- High risk pregnancy registration and differentiation -- Further auxiliary measures -- General Case History -- Age and parity -- Pre-pregnancy height and weight -- Sterility -- Chronic diseases -- Developmental uterine anomalies -- Previous Pregnancies -- Artificial termination of pregnancy -- Repeated spontaneous abortions -- Congenital anomalies -- Present Pregnancy -- Diabetes and pregnancy -- EPH gestosis -- Rh immunological conflict between mother and foetus -- Prematurity -- Some infections during pregnancy -- Nutrition and pregnancy -- Cardiopathies -- Twins -- Anaemia and bleeding during pregnancy -- Asymptomatic bacteriuria -- Protracted pregnancy -- Smoking and pregnancy -- Interval between present and preceding pregnancy -- Antenatal care -- Complications During Labour -- Breech delivery -- Protracted labour -- Premature rupture of the membranes -- Fever during labour -- Umbilical cord complications -- Signs of hypoxia during labour -- Surgical delivery -- Anaesthesia and analgesia -- Methods for Diagnosing Danger to Foetus and Placental Dysfunction -- Recording the foetal heart rate (FHR) -- Functional tests -- Foetal electrocardiography -- Determination of foetal blood pH from skin of foetus’s head -- The urinary oestriol level -- Vaginal cytology in the third trimester -- Alkaline phosphatase -- Human placental lactogen (HPL) -- Amnioscopy -- Amniocentesis -- Examination of the amniotic fluid -- Localization of the placenta -- The oxytocin test (Smyth’s test) -- Readiness of the uterine cervix for labour -- Ultrasound determination of the size of the foetus -- Prospects for the diagnostics of placental dysfunction and danger to the foetus -- Summing-up of the methods -- Prevention and Therapy of the High Risk Foetus -- Induction of labour -- Stimulation of uterine activity during labour -- Inhibition of uterine activity during labour -- Caesarian section -- Forceps and the vacuum extractor -- Conservative therapy -- Care of the “High Risk” Newborn Infant -- Cooperation between obstetrician and paediatrician -- The neonatal unit in the delivery theatre -- Postnatal classification of neonates -- Wards of the neonatal department -- The observation box of the neonatal department -- The intensive care unit -- Infusion therapy and administration of antibiotics -- Diagnostic values and therapeutic doses -- Prognosis for “high risk” neonates -- Categories of “High Risk” Neonates -- The asphyxiated newborn infant -- The traumatized neonate -- The premature neonate -- The small-for-dates neonate -- The post-term neonate -- The newborn infant with haemolytic disease (erythroblastosis foetalis) -- The infant of a diabetic mother -- Infections of the newborn infant -- The anaemic and plethoric newborn infant -- The genetically stigmatized neonate -- Neurological Diagnostics -- Importance of neurological examination -- Method of examining infants from high risk pregnancies -- Auxiliary examination methods -- Psychological Diagnostics -- Specific features of the psychological examination of very young children -- Delayed Effects in High-Risk-Pregnancy Children -- Socio-economic factors -- First signs of defects in the development of motility -- Development of motility and its stimulation in infants with perinatal CNS injury -- Minimal cerebral dysfunction (minimal brain damage) -- Infantile cerebral palsy -- Supplement: Screening of an Infant’s Psychomotor Development) -- Examination procedures -- References.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Štembera, Z. author., Znamenáček, K. author., Poláček, K. author., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1976
Subjects:	Medicine., Gynecology., Pediatrics., Medicine & Public Health.,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1420-5
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