Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology provides a thorough overview of the essential topics that healthcare practitioners in the field need to know, with a focus on clinical practice.

This highly regarded textbook provides comprehensive coverage of gynaecology, reproductive health, obstetrics and on-call for O&G. It has been thoroughly updated to incorporate significant developments in clinical care, including in prenatal diagnosis and screening, COVID-19 management, antenatal and postnatal care, and telemedicine abortion practices.

With full colour illustrations, self-assessment questions and additional online material to reinforce learning, this is a valuable resource for medical students, junior doctors, midwives, nurses and for healthcare practitioners from other specialties seeking a broad-based grounding in O&G.

• Clear and concise to enhance learning
• Summary boxes, key points boxes, and high-quality anatomical illustrations make navigation easy
• Aligns with current guidelines and practice
• New OSCE practice cases and SBA questions
• Additional chapters online

Review

Up-to-date overview of O&G with a focus on clinical practice

About the Author

Elizabeth A. Layden, MBChB, DLM, MRCOG, Clinical Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Great Britain; Specialty Registrar, Simpson Centre for Reproductive Health, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Great Britain

Contents

۱. Clinical Pelvic Anatomy
۲. History and Examination
۳. Paediatric Gynaecology and Differences in Sex Development
۴. Menstruation and Amenorrhoea
۵. Subfertility
۶. Early Pregnancy Care
۷. Heavy Menstrual Bleeding, Dysmenorrhoea and Pre-Menstrual Syndrome
۸. Pelvic Pain and Endometriosis
۹. Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy
۱۰. Pelvic Organ Prolapse
۱۱. Urinary Incontinence
۱۲. Ovarian Neoplasms
۱۳. Uterine Neoplasms
۱۴. Cervical Neoplasms
۱۵. Gestational Trophoblastic Disease
۱۶. Disorders of the Vulva
۱۷. Gynaecological Surgery
۱۸. Sexually Transmitted Infections
۱۹. Sexual Problems
۲۰. Abortion
۲۱. Contraception
۲۲. Ethical Issues
۲۳. Antenatal and Postnatal Care
۲۴. Maternal Medicine
۲۵. Fetal Medicine
۲۶. Obstetric Haemorrhage
۲۷. Fetal Growth and Surveillance
۲۸. Hypertension in Pregnancy
۲۹. Pre-Term Birth
۳۰. Multiple Pregnancy
۳۱. Labour and Analgesia
۳۲. Monitoring of the Fetus in Labour
۳۳. Induction of Labour
۳۴. Malpresentation and Slow Labour
۳۵. Obstetric Emergencies
۳۶. Operative Birth
۳۷. Stillbirth and Neonatal Mortality
۳۸. Neonatal Resuscitation
۳۹. Global Maternal and Neonatal Health
۴۰. Human Embryology
۴۱. Imaging in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
۴۲. The Physiology of Pregnancy
۴۳. Neonatal Care
۴۴. Practical Obstetrics and Gynaecology
۴۵. UK Medicolegal Issues

Video Contents

۱. Pelvic Pain
۲. The Menopause
۳. STIs
۴. Contraception
۵. Fetal Medicine
۶. Prematurity
۷. Induction
۸. Slow and precipitate labour
۹. Stillbirth
۱۰. On Call