Essential obstetrics and gynaecology
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Essential obstetrics and gynaecology
Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier, 2013
5th ed
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Rev. ed. of: Essential obstetrics and gynaecology / E. Malcolm Symonds, Ian M. Symonds. 4th ed. 2004
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is the fifth edition of a popular, highly readable primer in obstetrics and gynaecology. It has been thoroughly updated and reconfigured to key into the new undergraduate curriculum n O&G devised by the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Highly illustrated throughout.
Essential information points at the end of chapters.
Case histories throughout.
Practical procedures boxes throughout.
Alert (warnings or advice) and tick (guidance or definitions) boxes throughout.
New editor: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran.
Now a multi-authored text written by eminent experts from across the specialty.
Book entirely restructured to reflect the national undergraduate curriculum in obstetrics and gynaecology.
Two new appendices: Principles of Perioperative Care and Governance, Audit and Research.
Over 100 self-assessment MCQs at the end of the book.
Table of Contents
Section 1 Essential reproductive science
1. Anatomy of the female pelvis
Caroline de Costa
2. Conception and nidation
Roger Pepperell
3. Physiological changes in pregnancy
Fiona Broughton Pipkin
4. Placental and fetal growth and development
E. Malcolm Symonds
5. Perinatal and maternal mortality
Boon H. Lim
Section 2 Essential obstetrics
6. History taking and examination in obstetrics
Edwin Chandraharan
7. Normal pregnancy and antenatal care
Shaylee Iles
8. Obstetric disorders
Henry G. Murray
9. Maternal medicine
Suzanne V.F. Wallace, Henry G. Murray and David James
1. Assessment of fetal wellbeing
David James and Suzanne V.F. Wallace
11. Management of labour
Sabaratnam Arulkumaran
12. Management of delivery
Aldo Vacca
13. Postpartum problems
Shankari Arulkumaran
14. Psychiatric disorders of childbirth
Margaret R. Oates
Section 3 Essential gynaecology
15. Basic clinical skills in gynaecology
Ian M. Symonds
16. Gynaecological disorders
Ian S. Fraser
17. Infertility
William Ledger
18. Early pregnancy care
Ian M. Symonds
19. Sexual and reproductive health
Roger Pepperell
2. Gynaecological oncology
Hextan Y.S. Ngan and Karen Chan
21. Prolapse and disorders of the urinary tract
Ajay Rane and Jay Iyer
Appendices
A: Principles of perioperative care
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