"The new edition of this bestselling book provides all the information a specialist registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology or senior house officer needs during training or when preparing for the MRCOG examination. It covers the latest professional guidelines and developments in obstetrics and gynaecology; information on evidence-based medicine is also included to provide a rapid summary of the evidence relating to the interventions and treatments discussed. This text will continue to be an invaluable companion to the higher training of obstetricians and gynaecologists as well as a useful ready reference for those in established practice"--
The new edition of this bestselling book provides all the information a specialist registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology or senior house officer needs during training or when preparing for the MRCOG examination. It covers the latest professional guidelines and developments in obstetrics and gynaecology; information on evidence-based medicine is also included to provide a rapid summary of the evidence relating to the interventions and treatments discussed. This text will continue to be an invaluable companion to the higher training of obstetricians and gynaecologists as well as a useful ready reference for those in established practice.
FROM REVIEWS OF PREVIOUS EDITIONS
"an impressive general all round textbook
covers its topic in excellent detail" Glycosmedia
It covers the latest professional guidelines and developments in obstetrics and gynaecology; information on evidence-based medicine is also included to provide a rapid summary of the evidence relating to the interventions and treatments discussed.
Preface.
List of contributors.
List of abbreviations.
I: General
1.1. Evidence-based Medicine and medical informatics. 1.2. General principles
in surgery. 1.3. Communication and counselling skills in obstetrics and
gynaecology. 1.4. The Law, Medicine, and Womens Rights. 1.5. The management
of clinical risk. 1.6. Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and
Confidential Enquiries across the UK. 1.7. The MRCOG examination. 1.8.
Non-operative Technical Skills for Surgeons.
II: Antenatal
2.1. Routine Antenatal Care: An Overview. 2.2. Chronic Hypertension. 2.3.
Diabetes Mellitus, including Gestational diabetes. 2.4. Cardiac Diseases in
pregnancy. 2.5. Thyroid Disease in pregnancy. 2.6. Haematology in Obstetrics.
2.7. Kidney Disease in pregnancy. 2.8. Autoimmune mediated Rheumatological
diseases in Pregnancy. 2.9. Liver and Gastrointestinal Disease in Pregnancy.
2.10. Respiratory Disease in Pregnancy. 2.11. Neurological Conditions in
pregnancy. 2.12. Substance Abuse. 2.13. Skin Disease in Pregnancy. 2.14.
Malignancy in pregnancy. 2.15. Maternal Infection in Pregnancy. 2.16.
Pre-eclampsia. 2.17. Psychiatric Disease and Pregnancy. 2.18. Antenatal care:
Medication and Pregnancy. 2.19. Maternal collapse.
III: Fetal conditions
3.1. Screening in Pregnancy. 3.2. Ultrasound Screening. 3.3. Invasive and
Non-Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis. 3.4. Understanding Genetics and Genetic
Testing. 3.5. Multiple Pregnancy. 3.6. Fetal infection for MRCOG. 3.7. Tests
of Fetal Wellbeing and Preventing Stillbirth. 3.8. Screening and Management
of Fetal Growth Disorders. 3.9. Aberrant liquor volume. 3.10.
Malpresentation. 3.11. Diagnosis of and Care in Labour. 3.12. Preterm Birth.
3.13. Premature rupture of membranes. 3.14. Antepartum haemorrhage. 3.15.
Intrauterine Fetal Death and Stillbirth. 3.16. The Induction of Labour. 3.17.
Management of abnormal progress in labour. 3.18. Fetal compromise in the
first stage of labour. 3.19. Caesarean Section. 3.20. Placenta Accreta
Syndrome.
IV: Second stage of labour
4.1. Fetal Compromise in the Second Stage of Labour. 4.2. Shoulder Dystocia.
4.3. Instrumental Vaginal Delivery. 4.4. Breech. 4.5. Perineal Trauma for
MRCOG. 4.6. Perinatal Asphyxia. 4.7. Neonatal Resuscitation. 4.8. Perinatal
Mortality.
V: Puerperium
5.1. Problems with Breastfeeding. 5.2. Maternal Pyrexia. 5.3. Postpartum
Haemorrhage.
VI: Reproductive Gynaecology
6.1. Normal and abnormal development of the genitalia. 6.2. Karyotypic
abnormalities. 6.3. Menarche and adolescent gynaecology. 6.4. Ovarian and
menstrual cycles. 6.5. Contraception and termination of pregnancy. 6.6.
Endometrial function. 6.7. Uterine fibroids and Heavy menstrual bleeding.
6.8. Abnormal uterine bleeding. 6.9. Dysmenorrhoea and pelvic pain. 6.10.
Endometriosis. 6.11. Adenomyosis. 6.12. Premenstrual syndrome. 6.13. Normal
conception. 6.14. Female infertility. 6.15. Male infertility. 6.16.
Unexplained infertility. 6.17. Assisted reproduction. 6.18. Polycystic
ovarian syndrome. 6.19. Hirsutism and Virilisation. 6.20. Amenorrhoea and
oligomenorrhoea. 6.21. Menopause. 6.22. Miscarriage. 6.23. Ectopic pregnancy
- Lucrezia Viola de Braud, Sarah Solangon, and Davor Jurkovic. 6.24.
Premature ovarian insufficiency n. 6.25. Fertility preservation. 6.26.
Psychosexual medicine.
VII: Urogynaecology and Sexual Health and Wellbeing
7.1. Assessment of lower urinary tract function. 7.2. Urinary incontinence.
7.3. Other lower urinary tract disorders. 7.4. Lower urinary tract
infections. 7.5. Urogenital prolapse. 7.6. Pelvic Infection and sexual
health. 7.7. Dyspareunia and other psychosexual problems. 7.8. Child sexual
abuse. 7.9. Rape and sexual assault. 7.10. Female Genital Mutilation.
VIII: Lower Genital Tract
8.1. Benign vulval problems. 8.2. Vulvodynia. 8.3. Management of Vulval
intraepithelial Neoplasia. 8.4. Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia and
Screening.
IX: Gynaecological Oncology
9.1. Endometrial cancer. 9.2. Cervical cancer. 9.3. Ovarian Cancer. 9.4.
Vulval and vaginal cancers. 9.5. Gestational trophoblastic disease. 9.6. Rare
Gynaecological Cancers.
Index.
Mark D. Kilby, is Emeritus Professor in Fetal Medicine, University of Birmingham, and Consultant in Fetal Medicine at the Fetal Medicine Centre, Birmingham Womens Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK David M. Luesley, is the Emeritus Professor of Gynaecological Oncology, University of Birmingham, UK
Section Editors:
James Castleman is consultant in Maternal & Fetal Medicine Centre, Birmingham Womens Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK. Arri Coomarasaramy is Professor of Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine, University of Birmingham, UK Jess Davison is consultant in Obstetrics, Birmingham Womens Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK James Owen Drife is Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Leeds, UK Leo Gurney is consultant in Maternal & Fetal Medicine Centre, Birmingham Womens Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK Pierre Martin-Hirsch is consultant Gynaecological Oncologist and Research Director, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, Preston, UK Ash Monga is a consultant Gynaecologist and Subspecialist Urogynaecologist, Southampton University Hospital Trust, UK. Jason Yap is Associate Clinical Professor of Gynaecological Oncology, University of Birmingham, and Consultant Gynaecological Cancer Surgeon, Pan Birmingham Gynaecological Cancer Center, UK.
