Obstetrics & Gynecology

Pocket-sized and built for speed, brimming with protocols, clinical pearls, and pitfalls to avoid. Features essential and practical guidelines distilled from the new Obstetrics and Gynecology textbook, focusing on what house officers, clinicians, and third- and fourth-year medical students need most.

As the ob/gyn specialty has broadened in scope to include primary care responsibilities, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Principles for Practice fills the need for a definitive single source covering the latest advances in women's health care topics ; one that provides expert clinical advice that is immediately applicable to your practice.

Update your knowledge with the latest clinical advances .

This outstanding new reference is essential reading for obstetricians, gynecologists, family practitioners, and other health-care providers who want to stay on top of the explosion of knowledge in obstetrics, gynecology, and women's health care, and the corresponding advances in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and conditions.

Contents

• 1. Maternal Physiology
• 2. Preconceptional and Prenatal Care
• 3. Teratology
• 4. Prenatal Diagnosis
• 5. Infections in Pregnancy
• 6. Medical Complications in Pregnancy
• 7. Hypertensive Disorders During Pregnancy
• 8. Emergencies during Pregnancy: Trauma and Nonobstetric Surgical Conditions
• 9. Multiple Gestation
• 10. Isoimmunization
• 11. Evaluation and Treatment of the Patient with a Stillborn Fetus
• 12. Pregnancy Termination
• 13. Preterm Delivery
• 14. Antepartum Hemorrhage
• 15. Postdate Pregnancy
• 16. Abnormal Presentation
• 17. Labor and Delivery: Normal and Abnormal
• 18. Obstetric Analgesia and Anesthesia
• 19. Operative Vaginal Delivery
• 20. Cesarean Delivery and Cesarean Hysterectomy
• 21. Immediate Assessment and Resuscitation of the Neonate
• 22. The Puerperium

• 23. Cancer Screening
• 24. Wellness Counseling/Immunizations
• 25. Collaborative Practice Models
• 26. Hypertension
• 27. Diabetes Mellitus
• 28. Lipid Disorders
• 29. Thyroid Diseases
• 30. Mood Disorders
• 31. Substance Abuse/Dependence
• 32. Dermatologic Problems
• 33. Approach to Anemia
• 34. Respiratory Problems
• 35. Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence
• 36. Stress Management
• 37. HIV/AIDS
• 38. Headache, Dizziness, and Syncope
• 39. Evaluation of Musculoskeletal Symptoms
• 40. Gastrointestinal Disorders
• 41. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• 42. Contraception/Family Planning
• 43. Sexually Transmissible Infections
• 44. Breast Disorders
• 45. Sexual Counseling
• 46. Hursutism
• 47. Abnormal and Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding
• 48. Hyperprolactinemia
• 49. Premenstrual Syndrome
• 50. Management of Menopause
• 51. Recurrent Pregnancy Loss
• 52. Endometriosis
• 53. Urogynecology: Urinary Incontinence and Sensory Disorders of the Female Lower Urinary Tract
• 54. Dysmenorrhea and Pelvic Pain
• 55. Abnormal Pap Smear (Including Colposcopy, Cryotherapy, and the Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure)
• 56. Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
• 57. Ectopic Pregnancy
• 58. Uterine Leiomyomas and Other Benign Pelvic Masses
• 59. Pelvic Organ Prolapse
• 60. Vulvar Lesions
• 61. Preoperative Evaluations
• 62. Radiation Therapy and Chemotherapy
• 63. Vulvar and Vaginal Cancer
• 64. Cervical Cancer
• 65. Uterine Cancer
• 66. Ovarian Cancer
• 67. Gestational Trophoblastic Disease
• 68. Metastatic Tumor Spread to the