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13 Trauma and bleeding

Objectives

When you have completed this unit you should be able to:

  • Name the important forms of trauma that occur during delivery.
  • Manage infants with birth trauma.
  • Name the important causes of bleeding.
  • Understand haemorrhagic disease of the newborn.
  • Treat the different causes of bleeding.
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13-1 What is trauma?
13-2 Which infants are at an increased risk of trauma?
13-3 What are the major types of trauma?
13-4 What is caput?
13-5 What is a cephalhaematoma?
13-6 What is the treatment of a cephal­haematoma
13-7 What is a subaponeurotic haemorrhage?
13-8 What is the treatment of a subaponeurotic haemorrhage?
13-9 What is a facial palsy?
13-10 What is a brachial palsy?
13-11 What is the treatment of brachial palsy?
13-12 What causes bruising?
13-13 What fractures are seen in the newborn infant?
13-14 How are fractures treated?
13-15 What is the management of lacerations?
13-16 What makes a wound stop bleeding?
13-17 What causes excessive bleeding?
13-18 When does damage to the blood vessels cause bleeding?
13-19 When does a decreased number of platelets cause bleeding?
13-20 When does abnormal platelet function cause bleeding?
13-21 How does a decreased platelet number or abnormal platelet function present clinically?
13-22 When does a decrease in clotting factors cause bleeding?
13-23 What is haemorrhagic disease of the newborn?
13-24 How do you prevent haemorrhagic disease of the newborn?
>13-25 What is the clinical presentation of haemorrhagic disease of the newborn?
13-26 How should you treat haemorrhagic disease of the newborn?
13-27 How do you differentiate between maternal and infant blood?
13-28 What is haemophilia?
13-29 How can you diagnose the cause of the bleeding?
13-30 Case study 1
13-31 Case study 2
13-32 Case study 3
13-33 Case study 4
 
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