Postpartum Care for Women with Epilepsy

Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fountaine ◽  
Patricia Rogers ◽  
Lynn Liu

A majority of women with epilepsy (WWE) will have a normal pregnancy and labor course. The postpartum period is a high risk time for WWE, which is less commonly addressed and arguable more important to discuss and plan for. The best way to have an uneventful labor and postpartum course is to make a care map before a WWE becomes pregnant. Providers should plan comprehensive epilepsy treatment not only during a pregnancy but also for the postpartum period including anticipated changes in AED dosing, breastfeeding discussions, and anticipation of the importance of social support. This includes providing ideas and suggestions to WWE about how to best care for themselves and keep their infant safe in the setting of a possible seizure. This chapter will discuss some of the challenges WWE face in the postpartum period and necessary considerations to ensure a safe and healthy transition to parenthood.

2018 ◽  
pp. 108-113
Author(s):  
Yu.R. Feyta ◽  
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V.I. Pyrohova ◽  

Despite the introduction of modern diagnostic technologies, prophylaxis and treatment techniques in obstetrical practice, the incidence of postpartum purulent-septic complications (PPSC) remains rather high and is an important medical and social problem, as they take one of the leading places in the structure of maternal morbidity and mortality. The objective: to improve the management of parturient womenwith a perineal birth injury in anamnesis, as part of an effective prevention of purulent-septic complications of puerperium. Materials and methods. The study included 77parturient women. Main and comparative groups were formed by women with a violation of the integrity of the perineum in the previous labor and with a high risk of developing infectious complications in puerperium. Women of the main group (n = 24) during each vaginal examination in labor (and an additional injection in 15-30 minutes after the rupture of the membranes) and twice a dayat a dose of 5 ml for 5 days postpartum, an antiseptic agent in the form of a vaginal gel, which consists of: 0.02% decamethoxin (antiseptic component), 0.5% hyaluronic acid (regenerating component) and lactate buffer (regulatory component). The comparison group included 27 women, without using vaginal gel in laborand using traditional wound treatment techniques in the postpartum period. The control group consisted of 26 women with uncomplicated somatic status, physiological course of pregnancy and labor. The evaluation of the effectiveness of the prescribed treatment was based on subjective symptoms (pain, discomfort, burning in the region of the perineal sutures), clinical data (swelling, hyperemia, nature of suturing healing), generally accepted indicators in dynamics (bacterioscopy of vaginal contents, pH-metry of the vaginal environment). Results. At the background of the use of three-component vaginal gel in the main group, the level of injury of soft tissues of the birth canal in these deliveries was lower by 19.9% than in the comparison group, prevalence of the 1st degreeperineumruptures, decreased the need for repeated episio- and perineotomy, which reduced the duration stay at hospital and improved postpartum rehabilitation in relation to the comparison group. On the third day of puerperium, hyperemia and edema of the wound area in women of the main group were observed almost three times less compared with the comparison group. On the fifth day of the puerperium in the main group the complaints were insignificant and appeared on the average 5 times less often, the healing was by the primary tension without infectious complications. The use of vaginal gel reduced the number of leukocytes in wound secretions by shortening the time of wound epithelization (1.5 times faster than in the parous from the comparison group). On the fifth day of using vaginal gel, 2/3 of the patients observed normalization of the vaginal microflora, the restoration of pH was observed. The results indicate the benefits of early onset of prophylactic measures and high effectiveness of topical antiseptic therapy in women with high infectious risk. Conclusions.In order to prevent antibiotic resistance tactics of prevention of PPSC in the group of high-risk septic complications provides one of the elements of anintegrated approach to use local antiseptics. Inclusion of the latter into a complex of prophylactic and treatment measures in the management of a high-riskwomen in puerperium contributes to the reduction of traumatic and infectious complications and provides more favorable course of labor and the postpartum period. Key words: labor traumatism, postpartum purulent-septic complications, local antiseptic.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (02) ◽  
pp. 61-71
Author(s):  
Ermawaty Arisandi Siallagan ◽  
Merlina Sinabariba ◽  
Sri Handayani Hia

Introduction: In Indonesia, in one hour, two mothers die from complications of pregnancy, childbirth and childbirth. Postpartum care is needed during this period because it is a critical period for both mother and baby. With close monitoring and care for mothers and babies during the postpartum period, it can prevent several deaths. This research aims to describe the knowledge of postpartum mothers about the danger signs during childbirth at the Mariana Sukadono clinic in 2019.Method: The method used in the study was a descriptive design and the sample in this study was 30 postpartum mothers who gave birth in this clinic with total sampling technique. The instrument used in this study was a questionnaire.Result: The results showed that the level of knowledge of mothers about danger signs during childbirth was more lacking (70.0%).Duscussion: Postpartum mothers are expected to know or seek information about danger signs during the puerperium during their spare time so that they are able to recognize danger signs during the postpartum period that might occur.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
T. P. Andriichuk ◽  
A. Ya. Senchuk ◽  
V. I. Chermak

The objective: to study the features of pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum period, fetal status and newborns in patients with a history of chronic salpingo-оophoritis.Materials and methods. Conducted a retrospective study of 150 birth histories and neonatal development maps. All patients were divided into two groups. The main group includes 100 patients with chronic salpingo-оophoritis, for which they received anti-inflammatory treatment from 1 to 3 times before pregnancy. The control group included 50 pregnant women who did not suffer from chronic salpingo-оophoritis.Results. Our analysis of pregnancy, childbirth, fetal and neonatal status in women with chronic salpingo-оophoritis indicates that such patients have a complicated obstetric and gynecological and somatic history, which forms an unfavorable basic condition of organs and systems, imperfect adaptation to pregnancy, high risk of failure of adaptive reactions. The result is a violation of the formation and development of the mother-placenta-fetus system and, as a consequence, a high level of complications during pregnancy, childbirth and perinatal pathology.Conclusion. Patients suffering from chronic salpingo-oophoritis should be considered at high risk of possible complications during pregnancy and childbirth. This category of women needs quality preconception training and careful monitoring during pregnancy.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shefaly Shorey ◽  
Yvonne Peng Mei Ng ◽  
An Ling Siew ◽  
Joanne Yoong ◽  
Evalotte M�relius

BACKGROUND Supportive educational programs during the perinatal period are scarce in Singapore. There is no continuity of care available in terms of support from community care nurses in Singapore. Parents are left on their own most of the time, which results in a stressful transition to parenthood. There is a need for easily accessible technology-based educational programs that can support parents during this crucial perinatal period. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to describe the study protocol of a randomized controlled trial on a technology-based supportive educational parenting program. METHODS A randomized controlled two-group pretest and repeated posttest experimental design will be used. The study will recruit 118 parents (59 couples) from the antenatal clinics of a tertiary public hospital in Singapore. Eligible parents will be randomly allocated to receive either the supportive educational parenting program or routine perinatal care from the hospital. Outcome measures include parenting self-efficacy, parental bonding, postnatal depression, social support, parenting satisfaction, and cost evaluation. Data will be collected at the antenatal period, immediate postnatal period, and at 1 month and 3 months post childbirth. RESULTS Recruitment of the study participants commenced in December 2016 and is still ongoing. Data collection is projected to finish within 12 months, by December 2017. CONCLUSIONS This study will identify a potentially clinically useful, effective, and cost-effective supportive educational parenting program to improve parental self-efficacy and bonding in newborn care, which will then improve parents’ social support–seeking behaviors, emotional well-being, and satisfaction with parenting. It is hoped that better supported and satisfied parents will consider having more children, which may in turn influence Singapore’s ailing birth rate. CLINICALTRIAL International Standard Randomized Controlled Trial Number (ISRCTN): 48536064; https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN48536064 (Archived by WebCite at http://www.webcitation.org/6wMuEysiO)


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John K. Kellerman ◽  
Alexander Millner ◽  
Victoria W. Joyce ◽  
Carol C. Nash ◽  
Ralph Buonopane ◽  
...  

Objective: Cross-sectional studies and prospective studies with long follow-up periods (e.g., years) have shown that lower levels of social support are associated with nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) among adolescents. This study examined how short-term changes in social support may contribute to NSSI behavior and whether different sources of support (e.g., friends, family members) provide differential protective effects against NSSI. Methods: We examined fluctuations in NSSI and social support perceived from multiple sources among a sample of 118 high-risk adolescents hospitalized for serious self-harm risk. Participants provided daily reports of social support and any self-injurious behavior for the duration of their inpatient treatment (721 total observations, average observations per participant = 6.11). Multi-level models were used to assess variability in social support and how these fluctuations relate to whether or not an individual engages in NSSI. Results: Over one-third of participants reported engaging in NSSI at least once during inpatient hospitalization and self-reported social support varied considerably within-person across sources of support. Support perceived from family members and inpatient unit staff was inversely associated with NSSI, but no relationship was found between NSSI and support from other patients on the unit or friends outside of the unit. Conclusions: These findings suggest that the protective effects of social support for NSSI vary over short periods of time and that support perceived from adults is particularly relevant among this high-risk clinical sample. This study represents an important step in identifying risk factors to improve the detection and prevention of NSSI among adolescent inpatients.


2019 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 296-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuo-Hui Huang ◽  
Cai-Lan Hou ◽  
Ying-Hua Huang ◽  
Xiao-Yan He ◽  
Qian-Wen Wang ◽  
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