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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:4 / 6
Course supervisor:Ilze Ansule
Study type:Full time
Course level:Bachelor
Target audience:Midwifery
Language:Latvian
Branch of science:Clinical Medicine; Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Objective

To create awareness about the female reproductive system, the ability to manage a physiological birth and the early postpartum period.

Prerequisites

Anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and managing of physiological pregnancy.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

As a result of the completion of the study course, students gain understanding and are able to report on the following:
• Foetus head peculiarities;
• Hip planes and their sizes;
• Progress of physiological delivery;
• Delivery biomechanism in frontal and dorsal types of vertex delivery;
• Delivery biomechanisms at foetus attitude of deflexion;
• Biomechanism of breech position;
• The graphic records of the delivery process and assessment possibilities of foetus antenatal state;
• Complications caused by ineffective delivery techniques.

Skills

As a result of the completion of the study course, students will know how to:
• apply the terms used in obstetrics;
• specify the foetus posture by pelvic examination;
• explain the physiological process of delivery;
• illustrate the foetal movement during normal delivery, foetal attitude of deflexion and at breech position;
• illustrate graphically the process of delivery and assess foetus posture during delivery;
• differentiate between ineffective delivery technique and physiological process;
• take labour;
• provide care for women and newborn during childbirth;
• work with the woman and her birth partner.

Competence

As a result of the completion of the study course the students get understanding of physiological and pathological delivery process, know to illustrate graphically the delivery process, know to monitor the frontal and dorsal types of vertex delivery.

Study course planning

Planning period:Year 2024, Autumn semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Midwifery, MZFVb5Bachelor’sRequiredSigne Irša, Laila Laganovska, Ilze Ansule, Aiga Zakevica
Planning period:Year 2025, Spring semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Midwifery, MZFVb4Bachelor’sRequired