What's the difference between midwifery and obstetrics?
Midwifery
Definition:
(n.) The art or practice of assisting women in childbirth; obstetrics.
(n.) Assistance at childbirth; help or cooperation in production.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
(2) The safe motherhood initiative demands an intersectoral, collaborative approach to gynecology, family planning, and child health in which midwifery is the key element.
(3) An overly bureaucratic approach to midwifery is not just letting mothers down – it's putting the whole profession under strain.
(4) The purpose of the 1988 Mini-Survey was the collection of up-to-date data from the ACNM membership, focusing on nurse-midwifery income.
(5) The integrated unit, which shared midwifery staff with the consultant unit, seemed to work well.
(6) This paper is an account of the process of identifying a college of nursing and midwifery corporate philosophy.
(7) Nice added that commissioners should ensure that women have all four possible options for giving birth available to them: hospital care, midwifery units in hospitals, midwifery units based in the community and at home.
(8) It is widely accepted that Sir James Young Simpson discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform and pioneered its application in surgery and midwifery.
(9) To evaluate the effectiveness of nurse-midwifery care in this sample, a prospective study of the service's 496 singleton birth outcomes during 1990 was undertaken.
(10) Midwives have contended that midwifery and obstetric workloads could not be measured and that only a 1:1 ratio of mother to midwife should occur, at least in the labour ward environment.
(11) The problem of raising the quality and effectiveness of medical care in the agricultural region of the country is being considered from the point of view of systems approach where a priority is given to the formation of a common modern scientific technology of delivering medical care different from feldsher-midwifery units to specialized centres.
(12) Achievement of these goals requires an expansion of both supply and functions of midwifery personnel.
(13) The report acknowledges these communities' concerns about a midwifery project, notes problems in determining accurate perinatal data for these locales, and indicates the need for comprehensive maternal-child care which is commensurate with these peoples' customs and beliefs.
(14) This technique can be useful in a nurse-midwifery practice in the management of a retained placenta or prolonged third stage of labor.
(15) Air sac midwifery technique is developed in this hospital to cut down the duration of labor (birth process).
(16) Age and previous nursing experience with midwifery patients or neonates were found to be significant factors associated with the prevalence of antibodies to CMV in staff applicants.
(17) In order to design a quality assurance tool for midwifery it was necessary to assess current frameworks and standards for practice.
(18) The U.S. needs far less money spent on surgical obstetrics, and more resources invested in a large, strong, independent midwifery profession.
(19) This article explores sources of bad feelings about research and suggests ways forward in the training of nurse and midwifery tutors, considering course planning and teaching methods, and peer support in and out of the classroom.
(20) In designing the curriculum for pre and post registration midwifery courses, the author has utilised an andragogical model.
Obstetrics
Definition:
(n.) The science of midwifery; the art of assisting women in parturition, or in the trouble incident to childbirth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perinatal mortality is strongly associated with obstetrical factors, respiratory distress syndrome, and prematurity.
(2) Emily Stow London • Until I retired a year ago I was a consultant anaesthetist with a special interest in obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia.
(3) The obstetric situations demanding action from the obstetrician are not rarely correlated or due to pathologic behavior at birth.
(4) At the Universitäts-Frauenklinik Heidelberg this examination procedure was used since June, 1985, to evaluate its clinical reliability in obstetrics and gynecology.
(5) One of the reasons for doing this study is to give a voice to women trapped in this epidemic,” said Dr Catherine Aiken, academic clinical lecturer in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology of the University of Cambridge, “and to bring to light that with all the virology, the vaccination and containment strategy and all the great things that people are doing, there is no voice for those women on the ground.” In a supplement to the study, the researchers have published some of the emails to Women on Web which reveal their fears.
(6) The aim of this study was to determine the attitudes of participating GPs to the shared obstetric care programme at the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne.
(7) This clearly more aggressive obstetrical conduct could not be explained by the main indications for cesarean section.
(8) The following results were obtained during pharmacokinetic, bacteriological and clinical evaluation of the usefulness of the combination (1:1) of imipenem (MK-0787) and cilastatin sodium (MK-0791), an inhibitor of dehydropeptidase-I, in the treatment of patients with obstetric and gynecologic infections.
(9) Since July 1, 1990, Nalbuphine has been used as an obstetric analgesia at the Municipal Women's Hospital in Cologne-Holweide.
(10) Real time multitransducer B scanners can greatly facilitate obstetrical ultrasound examination.
(11) Other causes are malaria (21), undernutrition (12), meningitidis (10), diarrhea (9), pneumopathy (7), endogenous and obstetrical causes (24).
(12) Images of pseudoporencephaly and hydrocephaly were seen in the scan as well as recent hemorrhages due to obstetric injury.
(13) A sexual, obstetric, and contraceptive history was obtained from each woman.
(14) A proposal for attention to professional influences usable in a computer program of obstetric clinics is offered.
(15) A review of the literature was conducted to survey obstetric practice with regard to amniotomy, intravenous fluids, third stage administration of oxytocics, episiotomy and continuous fetal monitoring.
(16) This paper examines the availability of office-based obstetric care to Medicaid patients in Illinois.
(17) Prognostic variables (age, International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics [FIGO] stage, performance status, and others) possibly associated with high-risk subgroups could not be identified.
(18) Foetal acidaemia in association with clinical foetal distress occurred twice as often in patients who had complications of pregnancy and who were therefore regarded as obstetrically "at risk" as it did in patients who were obstetrically "normal" No cases of acidaemia were detected in any of the foetal blood samples performed routinely on "at-risk" patients in the absence of clinical foetal distress.
(19) Family physicians who have given up obstetric practice were found to feel well trained and competent in this practice.
(20) Obstetric patients are often treated with a combination of traditional and Western methods.