Main description:

A comprehensive review of problems that may occur during pregnancy and labour. Beginning with antenatal care and surveillance throughout pregnancy, the following chapters discuss various medical conditions that may arise including diabetes, pulmonary and neurological diseases, urinary complications, cardiac disease and endocrine disorders. Several chapters are dedicated to labour and include topics such as instrumental delivery, postpartum problems, haemorrhage and neonatal resuscitation. With contributions from internationally renowned obstetricians, this manual includes more than 400 images and illustrations.

Contents:

1. Antenatal Care and Antepartum Fetal Surveillance

2. First Trimester Examination and Pregnancy Confirmation Test

3. Prenatal Diagnosis/Fetal Surveillance Color Doppler and 3D & 4D in Screening for Birth Defects

4. Termination of Pregnancy

5. Teenage and Elderly Gravida

6. The Grand Multipara

7. Bad Obstetric History

8. Gross Underweight and Gross Obese Pregnant Woman

9. Anemia in Pregnancy

10. Infections in Pregnancy

11. Pregnancy with Local Abnormalities

12. Medical Diseases and Pregnancy

13. Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy

14. Hellp Syndrome

15. normal labor

16. Intrapartum Monitoring and Management

17. Induction of Labor

18. Abnormal Labor: Malpositions

19. Malpresentations

20. Twins and High-Order Multiple Pregnancy

21. Fundal Height More than the Period of Amenorrhea

22. Sfh Less Than the Period of Amenorrhea

23. Intrauterine Growth Restriction

24. Cephalopelvic Disproportion

25. Instrumental Delivery

6. Management of Third Stage of Labor

27. Postpartum Problems (Acute)

28. Trauma in Obstetrics.

29. Maternal Injuries During Delivery

30. Cesarean Delivery

31. Neonatal Resuscitation

32. Puerperium

33. Prematurity

34. Postmaturity

35. Routine Ultrasonography in Pregnancy.

36. Obstetrical Hemorrhage

37. Universal Work Precautions for HIV and other Blood-borne Infections

38. Diet and Exercise in Pregnancy

39. Prescribing in Pregnancy.Appendix

Index