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Wound Healing in Midwifery focuses on the healing of maternal wounds and the potential complications that may arise. Even without complications, all childbirth results in the need for some wound healing and as the lead professional caring for women around childbirth, midwives are in the ideal position to influence effective healing. This easy to read, practical textbook offers boxed key points to assist comprehension and is perfect for practice and community nurses, health visitors, nursing students and practicing midwives. Maureen Boyle is the best-selling author of Emergencies Around Childbirth.

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'As midwives, caring for a woman with a serious infection is rare, and in most cases even the most extreme infection will respond to treatment and the outcome will be good. However until the 1930s infection was the main cause of maternal death in the UK and despite excellent progress in care of these women, in 2000-2002 sepsis was still the fifth most common cause of maternal mortality in the UK (and estimated to be the second most common cause of maternal death worldwide). Although the relatively small number of women dying in the UK can be seen as a success, it must be remembered than any infection can also lead to short or long term morbidity, which can influence or even change a woman's life forever.' Maureen Boyle, in the Introduction

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