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Maternal, Fetal, & Neonatal Physiology: A Clinical Perspective (Maternal Fetal and Neonatal Physiology)

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Offer the excellent care possible together with expert insight and clinically important coverage of the physiologic changes this occur throughout all key periods of the perinatal experience - prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, and neonatal. This topic offers a solid foundation for assessment and therapeutic interventions, featuring an emphasis on the evolving interrelationships between mother, fetus, and neonate and adaptations of preterm and term infants to the extrauterine setting. This edition proposes a new chapter on fetal assessment and surveillance, as well as extended coverage of the physiologic basis for reproduction.

Solid coverage of the physiologic bases for assessment and therapeutic interventions do this an perfect resource for complex practice.
Unit One examines the physiologic foundations for the prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum periods, counting information on placental, myometrial, and lactation physiology.
Units Two and Three every offer an in-depth learn of physiologic adaptations and developmental physiology for key body systems or metabolic processes.
Clinical applications important to patient care are linked to underlying scientific rationales, helping you offer the much efficient care.
Comprehensive tables and illustrations highlight important concepts and summarize key information.

A new Fetal Assessment chapter reviews the physiology of fetal heart function and heart rate patterns, fetal response to hypoxia, and clinical implications for surveillance of the fetus during pregnancy, labor, and birth.
International units of measure have been added to reflect global practice.
The chapter on Physiologic Basis for Reproduction features extended content on key areas such as endocrinology and an increased emphasis on clinical implications.

Customer Reviews

maternal,fetal and neonatal Physiology by Susan Tucker Blackburn 2009-05-21

By J. Lagos (Sydney, Australia)

The book I bought was new, it has been very helpful with some assignments I have had to do and it arrived very quickly, a lot earlier than the stimated date of arrival.

Comprehensive, yet riddled with typo's and careless errors 2008-06-20

By L. Allen

I used this book for the past term in grad school. It is quite detailed in anatomy and biochemistry. Susan Blackburn incorporates many research studies into the text. Perhaps that is what makes the information at times contradictory.
There are misspellings and typos here and there. There are some statements that don't make sense, and are written opposite of what should be. For example, page 701, "the basis for increased temperature in pregnant women in intrapartum may be due to decreased heat dissipation (due to DECREASED sweating threshold . . .)"
This statement should actually read, "the basis for increased temperature in pregnant women in intrapartum may be due to decreased heat dissipaton due to INCREASED sweating threshold . . .)"

The author uses very technical terms and details very intricate biochemical processes and mostly does not provide a definition or quick review. Also, there is no glossary.

The following is an example of what I term a "Blackburnism". p.672, "under the influence of estrogen, hepatic synthesis and sialyation of TBG increases two-fold to threefold beginning within a few weeks after fertilization . . ."
There is no definition given of sialyation. We were consulting medical dictionaries and the internet. Our instructor did not know what it was.
After spending too much time on the Web searching, I found that Blackburn had misspelled the word. It should be "sialylation". I waded through very technical reports on the Web. Because of that, I have an inkling of the definition of sialylation, but not a clear definition.

If this information is so essential for nurses to know, shouldn't it be presented more understandably?

Personally, I believe a nursing text should be written that doesn't include quite as much detail of the intricate biochemistry. Essential anatomy and physiology from such a text would then be more clearly recalled.

Instructors should think twice before using this text for their Reproductive Anatomy Courses.

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