DESCRIPTION:
This new edition of a favourite text continues to provide an excellent framework for approaching clinical problems in obstetrics and gynecology in addition to covering the fundamentals of the field. The material is organized into three sections: essential background knowledge, gynecology, and pregnancy and the puerperium. It also features thematic boxes to summarise key points and conclusions from research literature.
New to this Edition:
- Thoroughly revised and updated
- Updated ethics section
- New material updating risk management
- New equipment and techniques covered
- Updates to cover recent developments in anaesthesia-use in childbirth and caesarian delivery
- Thirty new contributors from a wide range of institutions
- Chapters on history and ethics dropped
- New sections to include, for example, glossary of eponymous names
CONTENTS:
SECTION 1 FUNDAMENTALS
1. Women""s health in the 21st century
2. Obstetrics and gynaecology: a brief historical overview
3. Medical ethics
4. Clinical genetics and molecular biology
5. Applications of statistics
6. Human embryogenesis
7. Clinical pelvic anatomy
8. History and examination
SECTION 2 GYNAECOLOGY
9. Paediatric gynaecology
10. Intersex
11. The normal menstrual cycle
12. Amenorrhoea
13. Infertility
14. Contraception and sterilization
15. Miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy
16. Therapeutic abortion
17. Sexual problems
18. Female genital infections
19. Menorrhagia and dysmenorrhoea
20. Pelvic pain
21. Endometriosis
22. Premenstrual syndrome
23. The menopause and hormone replacement therapy
24. Genital prolapse
25. Urinary incontinence
26. Ovarian neoplasms
27. Uterine cancer
28. Disorders of the vulva
29. Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and cance
30. Trophoblastic disorders
SECTION 3 PREGNANCY AND THE PUERPERIUM
31. The physiology of pregnancy
32. Maternal mortality
33. Antenatal care
34. Postnatal care
35. Medical disorders in pregnancy
36. Prenatal diagnosis
37. Obstetric haemorrhage
38. Small for gestational age and fetal growth restriction
39. Pregnancy-induced hypertension
40. Prematurity
41. Multiple pregnancy
42. Fetal haemolytic disease
43. Labour
44. Monitoring of the fetus in labour
45. Induction of labour
46. Pain relief in labour
47. Precipitate labour and slow labour
48. Malpresentations and malpositions
49. Obstetric emergencies
50. Operative delivery
51. Stillbirth and neonatal death
52. Neonatal care
