Caring for a laboring woman with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A case report

MCN The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 243-247

  Sobrino Bonilla, Yusimi ^a  

^a VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Birth; Labor; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNIOTOMY; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDURAL CATHETER; FEMALE; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LABOR; MATERNAL CARE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY; PULSE OXIMETER; TIME; UTERUS CONTRACTION; VAGINA; VAGINAL DELIVERY; MATERNAL WELFARE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; FEMALE; FETAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MATERNAL WELFARE; MATERNAL-CHILD NURSING; NURSE'S ROLE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4444272878     PISSN: 0361929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005721-200407000-00009     Document Type: Article

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