Obstetrician

The content of the article:

• Who is the midwife?
• What does the midwife?

Obstetrics is the medical discipline that deals with the study of physiological and pathological processes that affect a woman's body from the moment of conception, throughout pregnancy, during childbirth and in the period after them. In addition, this branch of science specializiruetsya on the development of modern techniques for childbirth, for the prevention and treatment of complications during pregnancy and childbirth.

In previous years the duties of the obstetrician included activities to caring for born babies. However, these procedures are gradually separated and became an independent branch of medicine called neonatology.

It is not necessary to match the obstetrics with surgery or therapy. It is a separate science that requires profound knowledge, which are rooted in these two disciplines, but grows its own branches. Also, as not to be confused with a specialist obstetrician-gynaecologist and obstetrician.

Who is the midwife?

An obstetrician is a doctor with secondary medical education engaged in the process of delivery. Engaged in planning upcoming pregnancy, monitors the status of women during the whole period of gestation and after him, have the knowledge and skills regarding surgical care for the mother, relative to pathologies and complications specialist obstetrician.

Directly obstetrician skillfully obliged to organize the process of birth into the light, so that not to violate the health of either the mother or the newborn. During the prenatal period, during birth and in the postpartum period, the woman and the baby should be under the control of a specialist.

Knowledge of basic anatomy, physiology, gynecology, sexology, surgery, genetics – all are necessary in the work of the obstetrician. In addition, women in childbirth are in dire need of the moral support of the plan. Therefore, the psychology of the person also is not alien to the obstetrician.

What does the midwife?

It is necessary to delineate two specialties: obstetrician and gynecologist obstetrician. An obstetrician is a medical worker with secondary education. To be able to work enough to have a diploma from a College. As for the obstetrician-gynecologist, the doctor must have a Universitymedical education.

Despite the fact that to work in the hospital is enough to end Obstetric case at the College, the profession of an obstetrician is important, because thanks to her, every person is born. The responsibilities of this specialist include physical and psychological preparation to childbirth of pregnant women. In addition, the midwife takes the child, if necessary (when the doctor is busy other necessary procedures for the delivery).

The immediate duties of the midwife include the following items:

• Examination of women in childbirth and pregnant women. The obstetrician must be able to measure pressure, body temperature, determine the mass of the body. Evaluation of the swelling and tone the uterus, measurement of the abdomen circumference, the definition of fundal height, palpation execution – all duties of a midwife. This specialist also has to listen to the fetal heartbeat and be able to distinguish normal from pathology.
• If you have a doctor regarding the implementation of dopplerografii, the obstetrician should be able to hold it.
• Execution testing. Most often, the obstetrician performs a fence smear on the pathogenic flora.
• Psychological support to the woman, performing a site survey of mothers under the prenatal training.
• Control of the condition of the labouring woman, monitoring the passage of the fetus at the time of the fights, the definition and assessment of their frequency and severity.
• The reception of the fruit when this cannot be done by the doctor.
• Performing measurement of height and weight appeared on the light of the child's initial examination.
• The mounting pegs for the cord, its processing.
• During postpartum activities of the midwife is obliged to assess the integrity of the placenta.

The obstetrician needs to be a stress man, because the birth process is very complicated, while it can be a lot of unforeseen situations. From prompt and competent assistance of a midwife is largely depends on the health of mother and child.

In addition, physical strength and firmness of hands - even two of the essential qualities of a midwife. It needs to take and hold a newborn, not to drop it and not to cause other damage.

As for the demand of profession, it is at a high level. In maternity hospitals and clinics are required as new staff and obstetricians with experience.

To understand what is the difference between obstetrician-gynecologist and a midwife, you should know that included in the basic duties of a doctor with the specialization obstetrician:

• The implementation of caesarean section;
• Perform other surgical interventions.
• Version, overlayforceps, vacuum, the squeezing of the fetus and conduct other procedures during the process of delivery, requiring appropriate qualifications;
• Suturing if you experience gaps;
• Introduction and administration of medicines;
• The extraction of the uterus;
• Conduct abnormal delivery.