GOLD Learning Speakers
Dr. Denis Walsh, RGN, RM, DPSM, MA, PGDip Ed, PhD
- Speaker Type: GOLD Midwifery 2017
- Country: GB
Biography:
Denis was born and brought up in Queensland, Australia but trained as a midwife in Leicester, UK and has worked in a variety of midwifery environments over the past 30 years. He is now Associate Professor in Midwif in normal labour and birth, midwifery-led models and midwifery-led units. He had written extensively in these areas over the last 20 years. He lectures on evidence and skills for normal birth internationally and authored the best seller -‘Evidence-Based Care for Normal Labour & Birth’, now in its 2nd edition.
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Rhythms in Labour: A Critical Review of Dystocia
Current understandings of dystocia rest on outdated definitions of active first stage of labour and its progress and on treatments with an equivocal evidence base. These include the cervical dilatation threshold for active first stage, uncertainty over whether a reduced rate of dilatation and reduced strength of uterine contractions represents pathology and the effectiveness of amniotomy and oxytocin for preventing or treating dystocia. Recommendations are made for revising the definitions of active phase of the first stage and for dystocia and for alternative, non-medical interventions that are known to shorten the length of labour.
Hours / CE Credits: 1 (details) | Categories:
(IBCLC) Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology, Dystocia
