Maternity Ward
Head of ward:
Valentyna Sydorenko, higher qualifying category, has been leading the ward since 1996, length of speciality service - 29 years
Structure of the ward:
- waiting room
- individual delivery rooms (9), equipped with functional beds, fitness balls, wall bars, radiant warmth lamps, newborns tables with heating
- operating-rooms (2) - for performing surgical procedures
Equipment:
- fetal biomonitors (3) - for determination of fetus state and birth activity
- reanimation tables (2) - for newborns
- anesthesia-respiratory apparatus and monitors for adults
- equipment for newborns primary reanimation
- digital newborns scales
Basic guidelines:
- care for women in birth, women recently confined and newborns is provided with companions involvement in at most close to home conditions
- in the case of labor process abnormality - timely diagnostics, correction of complications and adequate choice of delivery method
- supplying department with sufficient amount of medicines for providing first aid
Methods:
- application of modern WHO technologies , based on EBM principles (conservative practices are not carried out: shaving, cleansing enema, catheterization of urinary bladder and etc.)
- free choice of position in the first and second periods of deliveries
- no limit for light food and liquid
- anaesthetization without applying medicines
- informing woman and involving her into taking decisions
- physical and psychological support
- active management (by patient's approbation) of the labor third period
- providing newborn with early 2-hour contact "skin to skin" with mother or father; early putting to breasts in the delivery room ; saving "thermal chain" (t in the delivery room +25С )
- postponement of child's examination, measuring and weighing until 2 hours after birth
- carrying mother with new-born to individual postpartum room
- birth canals examination with a speculum is only in the presence of indications
Advantages of the inculcated methods:
- increase of normal births quantity
- reduction of complications and surgical interventions frequency
- limited use of medicines during deliveries
- increase in healthy newborns number
Prospects:
- improvement of existing and introduction of new technologies (deliveries in water)
- equipping the department with apparatus (USI, cardiomonitor, vital functions monitor, spray pumps, beds-transformers)
