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2. Labor and delivery - Wikipedia

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   Labor and delivery nurses also known as L&D are licensed medical professionals who support obstetricians, midwives, expectant parents, and newborns. A labor and delivery nurse may administer medication, provide patient education, and monitor a patient's vital signs both during and after childbirth. Labor and Delivery Nurses work as main points ...

3. Montevideo units - Wikipedia

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   Montevideo units are a method of measuring uterine performance during labor. They were created in 1949 by two physicians, Roberto Caldeyro-Barcia and Hermogenes Alvarez, from Montevideo, Uruguay. They are exactly equal to 1 mmHg within 10 minutes. A standard adequate measurement is 200; this is generally equivalent to 27 kPa of combined ...

4. List of medical abbreviations: L - Wikipedia

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   L&D: labor and delivery: LA: left atrium lymphadenopathy local anesthetic: LAAM: L-alpha-acetylmethadol: Lab: laboratory (in health care, usually referring to clinical laboratory) LABA: long-acting beta agonist: LABBB: left anterior bundle branch block: Lac: laceration lactate: LAD: left anterior descending (a coronary artery) leukocyte ...

5. Obstetrics - Wikipedia

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   Look up obstetrics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Obstetrics is the field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. [1] As a medical specialty, obstetrics is combined with gynecology under the discipline known as obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN), which is a surgical field. [2]

6. Small Great Things - Wikipedia

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   Small Great Things (2016) is the twenty-fifth novel by American author Jodi Picoult. The book focuses on race in America and revolves around the protagonist, a delivery nurse, named Ruth Jefferson. [1] Small Great Things is being adapted into a film starring Viola Davis and Julia Roberts. [2] This is Picoult's first novel with an African ...

7. No Pain Labor & Delivery – Global Health Initiative - Wikipedia

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   The nongovernmental No Pain Labor & Delivery - Global Health Initiative (NPLD-GHI), established and designed to educate Chinese women and their health care providers about the safe and effective use of labor analgesia, was developed at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in 2006. After its first trip in 2008, >500 volunteers ...