Munro Kerr's Operative Obstetrics
- 1st Edition - April 1, 2014
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Thomas F. Baskett, Andrew A. Calder, Sabaratnam Arulkumaran
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 8 1 - 3 1 2 - 4 0 5 8 - 8
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Request a sales quote- Focuses on the intrapartum aspects of obstetric practice - the focus of medico-legal and clinical audit attention
- Highly illustrated to show techniques in detail
- Offers tips and advice to the trainee
- Emphasis on practical matters - a step-by-step approach
- Includes historical boxes to enliven and entertain
- Introduction
- Human birth
- Obstetric risk management
- Assessment and management of labour
- Fetal surveillance in labour
- Fetal asphyxia
- Induction of labour
- Preterm labour
- Assisted vaginal delivery
- Malpresentations
- Shoulder dystocia
- Caesarean section
- Vaginal birth after caesarean section
- Uterine rupture
- Breech delivery
- Twin and triplet delivery
- Cord prolapse
- Antepartum haemorrhage
- Postpartum haemorrhage
- Retained placenta
- Acute uterine inversion
- Lower genital tract trauma
- Haemorrhagic shock
- Disseminated intravascular coagulation
- Amniotic fluid embolism
- Analgesia and anaesthesia
- Procedures and techniques: Acute tocolysis
- Version
- Uterine tamponade
- Uterine compression sutures
- Pelvic vessel ligation and embolisation
- Obstetric hysterectomy
- Symphysiotomy
- Destructive operations on the fetus
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 1, 2014
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9788131240588
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Thomas F. Baskett
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CanadaAC
Andrew A. Calder
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Edinburgh, UKSA
Sabaratnam Arulkumaran
Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, PhD, DSc, FRCOG, FRCS, FACOG, Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (O&G) of St. George’s University, London; Foundation Professor of O&G, University of Nicosia, Visiting Professor, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College, London; Past President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (2007-2010); President: International Federation of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (FIGO) 2012-2015; Head, Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, St George’s University Hospital, London, UK (1997-2013). National award recipient of Knight Bachelor in the UK and Sri Lanka Ranjana in Sri Lanka for services to Medicine.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St George’s University of London, London, UK