Obstetrics by Ten Teachers

by Monga, Ash; Baker, Phil

• ISBN13: 9780340816653
• ISBN10: 0340816651
• Edition: 18th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-27
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers

Summary

The 18th Edition of this classic, world renowned textbook, which together with Ten Teachers in Obstetrics, provides comprehensive coverage of this important specialty for undergraduates and beyond. With Ash Monga now as leading Editor, and a largely new team of contributing authors, this newedition builds on the book's strengths, combining authoritative detail with a clear guide to essential knowledge, while incorporating the latest advances in the field. Great care will be taken to ensure structure, style and level of detail are consistent across both volumes providing thereassurance students require that they need go no further than this text. Where appropriate, chapters will be structured according to a consistent format (Overview, Definition, Prevalence, Etiology, Clinical features, Differential diagnosis, Investigations, Treatment, Key points, New developments,references), and illustrative case histories with 'Discussion points' will be provided throughout. In line with new curricula biomedical science underpinnings will be integrated within clinically orientated chapters.

Table of Contents

The Ten Teachers	viii
Acknowledgements	ix
Preface	x
Commonly used abbreviations	xi
Obstetric history taking and examination	1	(13)
Modern maternity care	14	(6)
Maternal and perinatal mortality: the Confidential Enquiries	20	(14)
Conception, implantation and embryology	34	(14)
Physiological changes in pregnancy	48	(15)
Normal fetal development and growth	63	(9)
Antenatal care	72	(12)
Antenatal imaging and assessment of fetal well-being	84	(20)
Prenatal diagnosis	104	(12)
Second trimester miscarriage	116	(9)
Antenatal obstetric complications	125	(21)
Twins and higher multiple gestations	146	(10)
Disorders of placentation	156	(15)
Preterm labour	171	(8)
Medical diseases complicating pregnancy	179	(21)
Perinatal infections	200	(20)
Labour	220	(35)
Operative intervention in obstetrics	255	(18)
Obstetric emergencies	273	(13)
The puerperium	286	(14)
Psychiatric disorders in pregnancy and the puerperium	300	(7)
Neonatology	307	(20)
Appendix 1: Medico-legal issues	327	(3)
Appendix 2: Ethics in obstetric practice	330	(3)
Index	333