Essential Obstetrics and Gynaecology 5/e

New to This Edition
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.
Key Features
Key features


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.


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

Stergios K. Doumouchtsis

B: Governance, audit and research

Tahir Mahmood

C: Medicolegal aspects of obstetrics and gynaecology

Roger Pepperell