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CHAPTER XVIII
COMPLICATIONS OF THE PUERPERIUM
The most important of the complications of the puerperium are subinvolution and malpositions of the uterus; breast abscesses; hemorrhage and infection.
The importance of these to the nurse lies in their preventability, by means of the clean and efficient care which she helps to give during pregnancy, labor and the early weeks after the baby is born.
The nurse’s part in prevention and treatment of subinvolution, malpositions of the uterus and breast abscesses is so bound up in the daily care of the young mother that it was described in the preceding chapter.