Obstetrics Illustrated
- 7th Edition - August 19, 2009
- Latest edition
- Author: Kevin P. Hanretty
- Language: English
This popular guide uses illustrations and concise, integrated text to describe the essentials of obstetric practice today. From the physiology of reproduction through antenatal… Read more
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Description
Description
This popular guide uses illustrations and concise, integrated text to describe the essentials of obstetric practice today. From the physiology of reproduction through antenatal care and disorders in pregnancy to labour and the puerperium period, readers will find an easy-to-grasp presentation of the field's most important issues.
Readership
Readership
Medical students and junior trainees in family medicine and ob/gyn, Midwifery students and midwives, ob/gyn nursing students
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. Physiology of reproduction
2. Fetal and maternal physiology
3. Obstetrical anatomy
4. Diagnosis of pregnancy
5. Antenatal care
6. Assessment of the fetus
7. Diseases of pregnancy
8. Systemic diseases in pregnancy
9. Vaginal bleeding in pregnancy
10. Multiple pregnancy and other antenatal complications
11. Normal labour
12. Abnormal labour
13. Abnormalities of the third stage of labour and of the placenta and cord
14. Obstetrical operations and maternal injuries
15. Puerperium: normal and abnormal
16. The newborn baby
17. Maternal and perinatal mortality
18. Contraception
2. Fetal and maternal physiology
3. Obstetrical anatomy
4. Diagnosis of pregnancy
5. Antenatal care
6. Assessment of the fetus
7. Diseases of pregnancy
8. Systemic diseases in pregnancy
9. Vaginal bleeding in pregnancy
10. Multiple pregnancy and other antenatal complications
11. Normal labour
12. Abnormal labour
13. Abnormalities of the third stage of labour and of the placenta and cord
14. Obstetrical operations and maternal injuries
15. Puerperium: normal and abnormal
16. The newborn baby
17. Maternal and perinatal mortality
18. Contraception
Review quotes
Review quotes
Review of the previous edition:
"This book is an illustrative representation of common problems and normal development of pregnancy. It takes the reader through pregnancy in a systematic order...covers the length and breadth of obstetrics including the physiology of reproduction, fetal and maternal physiology and medical disorders. The book is ideally suited to medical students, student midwives and clinicians who need a quick aide memoir." --Devender Roberts, Liverpool Women's Hospital, Hospital Medicine, February 2004
"This book is an illustrative representation of common problems and normal development of pregnancy. It takes the reader through pregnancy in a systematic order...covers the length and breadth of obstetrics including the physiology of reproduction, fetal and maternal physiology and medical disorders. The book is ideally suited to medical students, student midwives and clinicians who need a quick aide memoir." --Devender Roberts, Liverpool Women's Hospital, Hospital Medicine, February 2004
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 7
- Latest edition
- Published: August 19, 2009
- Language: English
About the author
About the author
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Kevin P. Hanretty
Affiliations and expertise
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, The Queen Mother's Hospital, Glasgow; Honorary Senior Clinical University Teacher, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK