The Labor Progress Handbook: Early Interventions to Prevent and Treat Dystocia

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Normal labor and labor dystocia : general considerations / Penny Simkin and Ruth Ancheta -- Assessing progress in labor / Wendy Gordon, Suzy Myers, with contributions by Gail Tully and Lisa Hanson -- Prolonged prelabor and latent first stage / Penny Simkin and Ruth Ancheta -- Prolonged active phase of labor / Penny Simkin, Ruth Ancheta, and Lisa Hanson -- Prevention and treatment of prolonged second stage of labor / Penny Simkin, Lisa Hanson, and Ruth Ancheta -- Optimal newborn transition and third and fourth stage labor management / Lisa Hanson and Penny Simkin -- Low-technology clinical interventions to promote labor progress / Lisa Hanson -- Epidural and other forms of neuraxial analgesia for labor : review of effects, with emphasis on preventing dystocia / Penny Simkin -- The labor progress toolkit : part 1 / Penny Simkin, Ruth Ancheta -- The labor progress toolkit : part 2 : comfort measures / Penny Simkin and Ruth Ancheta.