Product Description
Concise clinical manual giving guidelines for the use of hydrotherapy in delivery, or waterbirth. Discusses clinical and organizational aspects. Includes British, U.S., and European perspectives. For midwives or maternity nurses.
About the Author
Dianne Garland has been a practising midwife for the past seventeen years and has experience in clinical, educational and managerial roles. She has lectured widely on the use of water in labour both abroad and in the UK, including ICM Japan, Vancouver, Oslo and Manila. In conjunction with local companies she has designed a waterbirthing tub and the first underwater fetal heart rate Dopper. Her professional services have been utilised by the Royal College of Midwives and the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, and she has acted as a consultant to many maternity units in the UK.
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
