Main description:

Practical guide to care of mothers and unborn babies, and management of potential emergency situations
Fully revised third edition featuring latest advances and many new topics
Covers a range of emergencies, from smaller but urgent issues, to immediately life-threatening problems
Includes discussion on ethical and medicolegal issues
Highly illustrated with diagrams, flowcharts, tables and algorithms

Contents:

1. Antenatal Care

2. Miscarriages

3. Hyperemesis Gravidarum

4. Ectopic Pregnancies: Diagnosis and Management

5. Retroverted Gravid Uterus

6. Hydatidiform Mole

7. Trauma in Pregnancy

8. Shoulder Dystocia

9. Hypertensive Emergencies in Pregnancy and Labor

10. Cardiac Failure in Pregnancy

11. Acute Fatty Liver and Jaundice in Pregnancy

12. Infections in Pregnancy

13. Deep Vein Thrombosis in Pregnancy

14. Preterm Labor

15. Antepartum Hemorrhage

16. Retained Placenta

17. Intrauterine Growth Restriction

18. Management of Amniotic Fluid Emergencies

19. Intrauterine Fetal Death

20. Amniotic Fluid Embolism

21. Breech Presentation and its Complications

22. Abnormal Fetal Heart Trace on Cardiotocography

23. Anesthetic Complications in Pregnancy and Labor

24. Cesarean Delivery

25. Perimortem Cesarean Delivery

26. Postpartum Hemorrhage

27. Perineal Tears

28. Vaginal Birth after Cesarean Section

29. Drug Therapy in Pregnancy

30. Peripartum Cardiomyopathy

31. Uterine Inversion

32. Peripartum Collapse

33. Acute Abdomen in Pregnancy

34. Umbilical Cord Prolapse

35. Epilepsy in Pregnancy

36. Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Pregnancy

37. Laparoscopy in Pregnancy

38. Pregnancy as a Result of Rape

39. Obstetric Emergencies: Medicolegal Issues and Implications

40. Puerperal Sepsis

41. Obstructed Labor

42. Retained Mop in Abdomen/Gossypiboma in Abdomen

43. Malpresentations

44. Acute Asthma in Pregnancy

45. Scar Dehiscence

46. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation in Obstetrics

47. In Utero Transfer

48. Delivery in Emergency Department

49. Induction of Labor

50. Abnormal Progress of Labor

51. Transfusion Reactions

52. Anaphylaxis

53. Sickle Cell Crisis

54. Severe Anemia in Pregnancy and Labor

55. Role of Imaging Modalities in Obstetric Emergencies

56. Uterine Rupture