{"id":99,"date":"2015-04-18T16:11:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T16:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing411\/?page_id=99"},"modified":"2020-09-04T14:04:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T19:04:29","slug":"amniotomy-video","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing411\/videos\/labor-and-delivery-videos\/amniotomy-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Amniotomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/114070633\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e97d0c261b70034835374' value='69e97d0c261b70034835374'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e97d0c261b70034835374' value='Show Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e97d0c261b70034835374' value='Hide Transcript'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69e97d0c261b70034835374' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-red-button  '   style=\" color:#fffcfc;\">Show Transcript<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e97d0c261b70034835374' ><br \/>\n<strong>Amniotomy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most labors progress normally over the course of several hours. But some do not, and in this and several other situations, artificial rupture of membranes is sometimes advised.<\/p>\n<p>Begin by examining the patient.<\/p>\n<p>It is best if the head is fully engaged. While lesser degrees of engagement are sometimes acceptable, it is important to avoid creating a prolapsed umbilical cord.<\/p>\n<p>An amnihook is used to rupture the membranes. The hook is guided into place with your index finger.<\/p>\n<p>The bag of waters is snagged with the hook, and torn open.<\/p>\n<p>Artificial rupture of membranes should be painless.<\/p>\n<p>After rupture, observed the amniotic fluid for quantity, color, and odor.<\/p>\n<p>This amniotic fluid is slightly meconium stained, and average in quantity. It has no foul odor.<\/p>\n<p>   <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":55,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-99","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions\/636"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}