Obstetrics

Summary Every single day, Nigeria loses about 2,300 under-five year olds ranking the country as the second largest contributor to the under–five in the world. United Nation’s Children Fund (UNICEF) reports that “although analyses of recent trends show that the country is making progress in cutting down infant and under-five mortality rates, the pace still remains too slow to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of reducing child mortality by a third by 2015”, but that “the tragedy behind

Periodontal Disease and Pregnancy Jessica Klucznik Old Dominion University Dental Hygiene Program Abstract Periodontal disease and pregnancy is an important thing for all of us to take into consideration when dealing with clients. When it comes to pregnancy there is a great change occurring in the body, these changes can leave women more susceptible to infections within the body. So it is important for us to have the knowledge as to what we should do to help and teach our patients

Although, Singata et al. (2013) establish no significant difference in outcomes when comparing fasting to food and fluid intake, due to small sample size and limited population sampling the findings may not generalise beyond these studies. Risks in obstetrics may arise during any stage of pregnancy and labour, making it difficult to identify the definitive low-risk woman and potentiating the risk of adverse outcomes (Mayer, 2015). The need for further research, reflecting a wider population sample,

Not many large scale studies of the safety of home birth have been done in North America, perhaps because home birth in the United States and Canada is still considered “fringe” by many. To remedy this, in 2000, authors Kenneth Johnson and Betty-Anne Daviss conducted a large scale prospective study of planned home births in both countries. Few distinctions were made between nulliparous and multiparous women, but because it was the only large-scale study done in the United States, it is included in

A study done by the Health Care Agency found that the most common prenatal complication in women that lived in Orange County was gestational diabetes. The stated target population is women that live in Orange County, specifically in Santa Ana. The prevalence of gestational diabetes in Orange County was 7.1% affecting nearly 3,000 women in 2009 (Ramos et al., 2011, 2). This data shows the prevalence rates according to each city in Orange County Santa Ana as well as Anaheim, Garden Grove, and Irvine

The hospital that I work at does not have a labor and delivery unit, so my facility does not deliver infants. In the article Beliefs and Practices of Obstetric Care Providers Regarding Umbilical Cord Clamping, it is an interesting discussion to the timing of cutting the umbilical cord in full-term and preterm infants. Hill and Fontenot (2014) state, “If the umbilical cord remains unclamped for a small amount of time (approximately 30 to 120 seconds), rather than clamping immediately (15 to 20 seconds)

Globally, estimated 1.5 billion women were of childbearing age (15 to 45 years old) in 2011; 26% (310.62 million) of them covered by India only. Among 1.5 billion, 210 million become pregnant every year; of which; 86.66% (accounting as 182 million) of in developing world and remaining 13.33% (28 million) was in developed countries. 1, 2 Similarly 139.65 million births were in 2009 in the world and 26.92 million only in India.2 Pregnancy and childbirth are special events in women’s lives. This can

proportioned babies themselves, and it could change the evolutionary process from balancing selection to directional selection leading to babies with larger heads over the course of many generations. This article was published in the Cliff-edge model of obstetric selection in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of

profession I decided to follow was Obstetric Nursing. “OB nurses are also known as OB/GYN nurses, Gynecology/Obstetrics Nurses these nurse care for women from puberty to menopause. They help women during pregnancy, labor and childbirth, as well as women with health issues with their reproductive system.” Obstetrics nurses also assist the doctors during pregnancies and childbirth. Obstetric nurses must become RNs and can complete additional training to help move into the obstetrics department. Certification

The issue of the timing of cord clamping is not something I am familiar with. I researched cord clamping for the facility I am employed by. The standard operating procedure has no specific information regarding the timing of placing the clamps. The policy states that if no nuchal cord is felt the first step is to guide the delivery of the head of the newborn to prevent sudden delivery of the head and tearing of the perineum. Next, clamp cord with two clamps, one approximately 2-3 inches from