Full Description
This book surveys the normal obstetrics encountered in primary care and serves as a practical guide to the evaluation and management of common prenatal, peripartum and postpartum complications. Thoroughly revised and updated, Obstetrics in Family Medicine, Second Edition, addresses the major issues and problems related to each stage and outlines management protocols. It provides critical information about physical and ultrasound examinations, laboratory tests, drug toxicities, and screening techniques and highlights new and emerging areas of obstetrical care, such as prenatal testing protocols, treatment options for HIV in pregnancy and antenatal monitoring. Key points for each topic are summarized in tabular form for quick reference and diagnostic flow charts illuminate all aspects of the decision-making process. Concise and clinically oriented, this book is designed to help primary and family medicine physicians improve the quality of women's health care.
Contents
I Preconception and Prenatal Care1. Physiology2. Preconception Counseling3. Prenatal Care4. Medications in PregnancyII Complications of Pregnancy5. Dysmorphic Growth and Genetic Abnormalities6. Intrauterine Growth Restriction7. Preterm Labor8. Premature Rupture of Membranes9. Early Pregnancy Bleeding10. Late Pregnancy Bleeding11. Recurrent Pregnancy Loss 12. Rh Isoimmunization13. Infection in Pregnancy14. Hypertension in Pregnancy15. Diabetes in Pregnancy16. Multi gestational Pregnancy17. Post-Dates PregnancyIII Labor and Delivery18. Normal Labor19. Induction and Augmentation20. Pain Management in Labor21. Operative DeliveryIV Complications of Labor and Delivery22. Prolonged Labor23. Shoulder Dystocia24. Malpresentation25. Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring26. Maternal Fever in Labor27. Postpartum Hemorrhage28. Perineal Laceration and EpisiotomyV Postpartum Management29. Newborn Evaluation30. Routine Hospital Postpartum Management31. Complications of the Hospital Postpartum PeriodIndex
