Ian Donald's Practical Obstetrics Problems

✍ Scribed by Renu Misra

• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer India Pvt. Ltd
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 778
• Edition: 8
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides the best practices in clinical obstetrics. Each chapter has been updated to provide the most recent guidance in diagnosis and management, with a focus on practical tips and advice to deal with routine as well as urgent scenarios. It is a must read for budding obstetricians pursuing postgraduation in Obstetrics and Gynaecology as well as practicing obstetricians

USP: A perfect combination of up-to-date guidelines with practical tips throughout the book. Includes the recent advances in diagnosis and treatment of medical disorders in pregnancy and labour guidelines to reduce dystocia and caesarean section rates.

Salient features
• Recent advances in prenatal diagnosis
• Updated guidelines on managing thyroid dysfunction during pregnancy
• Best practices in the management of infections including HIV during pregnancy
• Premalignant and malignant diseases associated with pregnancy
• Revised labour curves, duration and progress of first and second stage and their management
• Interventions to reduce caesarean sections
• Postpartum haemorrhage: Prevention and management
• Insight into the causes of postpartum non-haemorrhagic collapse
• Advances in neonatology that the obstetrician needs to know
• Updated Appendix on drugs and vaccination during pregnancy and lactation
• COVID-19: How does it affect the mother and the newborn

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Preface
List of Contributors
Contents
Antenatal care
Miscarriage: Complications and management
Prenatal screening and diagnosis of birth defects
Ultrasound in obstetric practice
The high-risk gravida
Common ailments in pregnancy
Anaemia
Diabetes
Hypertensive disorders
Cardiac disease
Renal disease
Liver disorders
Other systemic disorders
Infections
Genital tract abnormalities: Congenital and acquired
Premalignant and malignant conditions
Antepartum haemorrhage
Fetal growth restriction
Multiple pregnancy
Polyhydramnios and oligohydramnios
Rhesus alloimmunization
Preterm birth
Prolonged pregnancy and stillbirth
Monitoring the fetus in pregnancy and labour
Normal labour
Abnormal labour
Analgesia and anaesthesia
Induced labour
Operative vaginal birth
Caesarean birth
Intrapartum maternal injuries
Postpartum haemorrhage
Postpartum collapse
Puerperium
Examination of the newborn
Neonatal resuscitation
Normal laboratory values in pregnancy
Vaccination during pregnancy
Drugs in pregnancy and lactation
Index

✦ Subjects

Obstetrics; Gynaecology; Pregnancy; Childbirth