Childbirth Trauma

✍ Scribed by Stergios K Doumouchtsis (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 337
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This comprehensive and authoritative text takes an integrated approach to childbirth trauma, focusing on anal sphincter injuries and perineal morbidity, as well as other lower urinary tract dysfunctions secondary to childbirth. ​In recent years there has been an increasing emphasis on childbirth injury. Research based on clinical evaluation and anal ultrasound has improved our understanding of these significant childbirth related complications, their associated morbidity and their long-term sequelae. Despite extensive research interest, clinical focus and institutional national and international guidelines, outcomes are still not optimal and debates continue. Complete with full-color illustrations, Childbirth Trauma is a useful guide for clinicians and researchers in this field.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Female Pelvic Anatomy....Pages 1-13
Anorectal Anatomy and Physiology....Pages 15-30
Epidemiology of Childbirth Trauma and Associated Pelvic Floor Disorders....Pages 31-41
The Effect of Pregnancy on the Pelvic Floor....Pages 43-56
Mode of Delivery and Perineal Trauma....Pages 57-68
Episiotomy....Pages 69-99
Types of Pelvic Floor Injury During Childbirth....Pages 101-109
Principles of Assessment of Childbirth Injury....Pages 111-118
Management of Childbirth Injury....Pages 119-130
Further Investigations and Follow-Up: Pelvic Floor Ultrasound....Pages 131-150
Childbirth and Lower Urinary Tract Complications....Pages 151-179
Childbirth Trauma and Lower Gastrointestinal Tract Complications....Pages 181-194
Healing Process and Complications....Pages 195-211
Pregnancy, Puerperium and Pelvic Organ Prolapse....Pages 213-230
Obstetric Fistula....Pages 231-247
Prediction, Risk Assessment, and Prevention of Childbirth Trauma....Pages 249-270
Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy for the Prevention and Management of Childbirth Trauma....Pages 271-301
Prognosis of Childbirth Trauma....Pages 303-314
Back Matter....Pages 315-329

✦ Subjects

Urology;Obstetrics/Perinatology;Imaging / Radiology;Colorectal Surgery