High-Risk Pregnancy: Management Options 5th Edition (2-Volume Set)

Description

High-Risk Pregnancy: Management Options 5th Edition – 2-Volume Set

High-Risk Pregnancy: Management Options, Fifth Edition is an authoritative two-volume reference on the assessment and management of complicated pregnancies. Edited by David James, Philip Steer, Carl Weiner, Bernard Gonik and Stephen Robson, it provides comprehensive, evidence-based guidance for obstetricians and maternal–fetal medicine professionals.

The book addresses the essential questions clinicians encounter when managing high-risk pregnancy: the risks posed to the mother and fetus, appropriate diagnostic assessment, management of pregnancy complicated by specific conditions and safe performance of obstetric procedures. Its extensive coverage spans prepregnancy assessment, prenatal complications, maternal and fetal disorders, infections, labour, delivery and postnatal problems.

Key Features

• Complete fifth-edition two-volume hardcover set
• Provides comprehensive coverage of high-risk pregnancy
• Uses an evidence-based approach to clinical management
• Discusses risks to both the pregnant woman and the fetus
• Covers prepregnancy, prenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care
• Includes guidance on diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
• Addresses maternal medical diseases complicating pregnancy
• Covers fetal abnormalities and prenatal diagnosis
• Discusses infectious conditions during pregnancy
• Includes modern approaches to obstetric emergencies
• Features newly written and extensively updated chapters
• Includes a useful normal-values reference section
• Suitable for specialist training and day-to-day clinical consultation

Major Topics Covered

• Prepregnancy counselling and risk assessment
• Environmental and constitutional risk factors
• Genetics and genetic counselling
• Early-pregnancy bleeding and pain
• Recurrent miscarriage
• Screening for fetal abnormalities
• Invasive prenatal diagnostic procedures
• Fetal growth restriction
• Multiple pregnancy
• Preterm labour and birth
• Hypertensive disorders and preeclampsia
• Diabetes and endocrine disease in pregnancy
• Cardiac, renal and respiratory disease
• Neurological and haematological disorders
• Thromboembolic disease
• Maternal infections during pregnancy
• Placental and umbilical-cord disorders
• Antepartum and postpartum haemorrhage
• Complications of labour and delivery
• Operative obstetric procedures
• Maternal critical care
• Postnatal maternal and neonatal problems
• Normal laboratory and physiological values in pregnancy

Recommended For

• Obstetricians and gynaecologists
• Maternal–fetal medicine specialists
• Obstetrics and gynaecology residents
• FCPS, MD, MS and MRCOG candidates
• Consultants managing complicated pregnancies
• Midwives and specialist maternity-care professionals
• Medical colleges, hospitals and institutional libraries