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Provide the best care possible with expert insight and clinically relevant coverage of the physiologic changes that occur throughout all major periods of the perinatal experience – prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, and neonatal. This text provides a solid foundation for assessment and therapeutic interventions, featuring an emphasis on the evolving interrelationships between mother, fetus, and neonate and adaptations of preterm and term infants to the extrauterine … More >>
Maternal, Fetal, & Neonatal Physiology: A Clinical Perspective
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#1 by J. Lagos on February 25, 2010 - 6:50 pm
The book I bought was new, it has been very helpful with some assignments I have had to do and it arrived very quickly, a lot earlier than the stimated date of arrival.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by L. Allen on February 25, 2010 - 9:40 pm
I used this book for the past term in grad school. It is quite detailed in anatomy and biochemistry. Susan Blackburn incorporates many research studies into the text. Perhaps that is what makes the information at times contradictory.
There are misspellings and typos here and there. There are some statements that don’t make sense, and are written opposite of what should be. For example, page 701, “the basis for increased temperature in pregnant women in intrapartum may be due to decreased heat dissipation (due to DECREASED sweating threshold . . .)”
This statement should actually read, “the basis for increased temperature in pregnant women in intrapartum may be due to decreased heat dissipaton due to INCREASED sweating threshold . . .)”
The author uses very technical terms and details very intricate biochemical processes and mostly does not provide a definition or quick review. Also, there is no glossary.
The following is an example of what I term a “Blackburnism”. p.672, “under the influence of estrogen, hepatic synthesis and sialyation of TBG increases two-fold to threefold beginning within a few weeks after fertilization . . .”
There is no definition given of sialyation. We were consulting medical dictionaries and the internet. Our instructor did not know what it was.
After spending too much time on the Web searching, I found that Blackburn had misspelled the word. It should be “sialylation”. I waded through very technical reports on the Web. Because of that, I have an inkling of the definition of sialylation, but not a clear definition.
If this information is so essential for nurses to know, shouldn’t it be presented more understandably?
Personally, I believe a nursing text should be written that doesn’t include quite as much detail of the intricate biochemistry. Essential anatomy and physiology from such a text would then be more clearly recalled.
Instructors should think twice before using this text for their Reproductive Anatomy Courses.
Rating: 3 / 5