Main description:

This book is designed for medical graduates who have undertaken general hospital training and wish to undertake postgraduate studies in obstetrics and gynaecology. This includes specialist trainees and general practitioners. The book will also be useful for medical undergraduates and midwives and midwifery students.

Examination Obstetrics & Gynaecology is an accessible rapid reference appropriate for daily use in a busy ward, clinic or surgery. Fully revised and updated, and building upon resources developed during the authors' specialist training for RANZCOG qualifications, and refined by practical clinical experience, it provides a summary of important and essential information needed in women's health. Organised in a note and checklist format, it utilises a step-by-step guide to diagnosis, investigations and suggested treatments appropriate to primary consultation prior to specialist referral.

Contents:

List of Abbreviations

Gynaecology

1. History & examination
2. Amenorrhoea
3. Menstrual disorders
4. Endometriosis
5. Polycystic ovarian syndrome
6. Hirsutism
7. Contraception
8. Miscarriage & abortion
9. Ectopic pregnancy
10. Infertility
11. Pelvic Infections
12. Menopause and premature ovarian failure
13. Management of the menopause
14. Disorders of sexual differentiation
15. Paediatric and adolescent gynaecological disorders
16. Chronic pelvic pain
17. Lower urinary tract symptoms
18. Pelvic organ prolapse
19. Cervical neoplasia
20. Uterine neoplasia
21. Ovarian neoplasms
22. Premalignant and malignant vulval disease
23. Vaginal disease
24. Benign vulval disease
25. Gestational trophoblastic disease

Obstetrics

1. Antenatal care
2. Antenatal diagnosis of fetal & chromosomal abnormalities
3. Assessing fetal well-being
4. Drugs & drugs of abuse in pregnancy
5. Infections in pregnancy
6. Red cell isoimmunisation
7. Antepartum haemorrhage
8. Fetal complications in later pregnancy
9. Breech presentation
10. Multiple pregnancy
11. Preterm prelabour rupture of membranes
12. Preterm labour
13. Induction of labour
14. Malpresentations & malposition
15. Operative delivery
16. Pain relief in labour
17. Labour ward emergencies
18. Maternal mortality
19. Perinatal mortality, birth asphyxia & cerebral palsy
20. Hypertension in pregnancy
21. Diabetes in pregnancy
22. Thromboembolism in pregnancy
23. Cardiac disease in pregnancy
24. Connective tissue disease in pregnancy
25. Haematology and pregnancy
26. Gastrointestinal disorders in pregnancy
27. Neurological disease in pregnancy
28. Thyroid disease in pregnancy
29. Renal disease in pregnancy
30. The puerperium