Paul Lyons

Obstetrics in Family Medicine (eBook, PDF)

A Practical Guide

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319200774
• Artikelnr.: 43792693

Autorenporträt

Paul Lyons, MD

Department of Family Medicine

University of California, Riverside

Riverside, CA

Inhaltsangabe

I Preconception and Prenatal Care.- Physiology.- Preconception Counseling.- Prenatal Care.- Medications in Pregnancy.- II Complications of Pregnancy.- Dysmorphic Growth and Genetic Abnormalities.- Intrauterine Growth Restriction.- Preterm Labor.- Premature Rupture of Membranes.- Early Pregnancy Bleeding.- Late Pregnancy Bleeding.- Recurrent Pregnancy Loss.- Rh Isoimmunization.- Infection in Pregnancy.- Hypertension in Pregnancy.- Diabetes in Pregnancy.- Multi gestational Pregnancy.- Post-Dates Pregnancy.- III Labor and Delivery.- Normal Labor.- Induction and Augmentation.- Pain Management in Labor.- Operative Delivery.- IV Complications of Labor and Delivery.- Prolonged Labor.- Shoulder Dystocia.- Malpresentation.- Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring.- Maternal Fever in Labor.- Postpartum Hemorrhage.- Perineal Laceration and Episiotomy.- NV Postpartum Management.- Newborn Evaluation.- Routine Hospital Postpartum Management.- Complications of the Hospital Postpartum Period.