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Midwifery IP Skills
IP Skills
8
Health Care
Professional
04/30/2013

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Term
Hand maneuvers for vertex delivery
Definition
  • Delivery of head (non dominant hand on baby's head)
  • Check for nuchal cord
  • Allow head to restitute (rotate)
  • Step to back of baby's head (in broken bed birth)
  • Pinkies to perineum to support head (hands off neck)
  • Traction towards woman's back until anterior shoulder axillary fold is visable
  • Traction toward woman's belly
  • As soon as both shoulders are out, slip lower hand down to grasp baby with thumb on back and other fingers on chest.
  • Lower hand runs along baby's back toward ankles (grasp ankles)
  • Hand baby to mom

If baby is going to peds:

  • Rotate feet towards axilla of the arm holding baby's head.  Tuck the baby's feet into your axilla 

 

Term
Repair of vaginal mucosa and transition to perineum
Definition
  1. Anchor stitch in mucosa
  2. Visualize spacing of stitches 
  3. If internal (interrupted) stitches are necessary do them now
  4. Use locked stitches to level of hymenal ring
  5. Use nondominant hand to bring last locked stitch square
  6. Insert needle to outside corner of lock and bring it down into the tissue on the same side (internal).
  7. Place continuous stitches down perineum until about 1 cm from apex.  Come out apex.
Term
Subcuticular closure of perineum
Definition

1. Come up perineum with subcuticular closure

2. Continue up the perineum, then stop 1/2 cm below the introitus

3. Insert the needle across from your exit point.  Travel back behind the hymenal ring

4.  Insert needle next to where you came up and take a bite to other side

5. Leaving a loop of suture on the side you just left, tie your other end to the loop, using the two sides of one loop as one thread.

Term
What is important to remember when putting in deep interrupted stitches
Definition
Hold needle holder perpendicular to the floor to avoid puncturing the rectal capsule.
Term
Fetal scalp electrode prereqs
Definition

2 cm dilatation 

Rupture of membranes

Term
Contraindications of fetal scalp electrode
Definition
  • Unknown presentation or presenting part=face, genital, fontanels
  • Active herpes, hep C, HIV
  • Avoid with Hep B, GC, Chlamydia, GBS
  • Placenta previa (known or suspected)
  • Woman is a confirmed carrier of hemophilia and fetus status is unknown or is affected
Term
Prereqs for IUPC insertion
Definition

ROM

2 cm dilation

 

Term
Contraindications for IUPC
Definition

Uterine bleeding of undetermined origin

Placenta previa

 

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