Handbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology / Edition 2

by Barry G. Wren

Overview

This second edition of the Handbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology has become necessary because of the increasing growth in know­ ledge and changing ideas on Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Never­ theless, we have attempted to maintain the same basic approach and concepts to student learning as we evinced in the first edition. Any changes to the text are updating of existing practices and knowledge or correction of errors in the original text. The Handbook is still a guide to achieving mastery of the undergraduate curriculum, but over the past five years we have realised the book is also widely used by general practitioners and nurses as well as undergraduate students. It is tempting to enlarge the handbook to encompass all the needs of diverse groups of health personnel, but we have resisted this desire. Instead, the Handbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology can be regarded as a true guide to aid students in the application of knowledge to the clinical setting. In conjunction with one of the major recom­ mended text books, this book provides a useful aid to students and general practitioners. I hope all who read it continue to find it useful. BARRY G. WREN 1984 Chapter 1 History Taking and Physical Examination BARRY G. WREN GENERAL INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVE The students will develop competence in taking a history and perform­ ing a physical examination so that obstetric or gynaecological abnormali­ ties can be recognized and appropriate management initiated.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780412260803
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	01/01/1985
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985
Pages:	403
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

1 History Taking and Physical Examination.- 2 Adverse Factors Affecting Embryo or Fetus.- 3 Normal Pregnancy.- 4 Deviations from a Normal Pregnancy.- 5 Normal Labour and Delivery, and Resuscitation of the Newborn (with a section on Examination of the Newborn by J.M. Gupta).- 6 Abnormal Labour.- 7 Analgesia and Anaethesia in Obstetrics.- 8 The Puerperium.- 9 Abortion, Ectopic Pregnancy and Trophoblastic thseases.- 10 Infertility and Contraception.- 11 Genital Tract Infections and thscharge.- 12 Functional Variations of the Female Genital Tract.- 13 Prolapse and Urinary Incontinence.- 14 Benign and Malignant Tumours of the Female Genital Tract.- 15 Human Sexuality.- Appendices.- Antenatal Care.- ‘At-Risk’ Pregnancies.