This textbook for undergraduates seeks to equip them with the essential skills required in obstetrics covering care during pregnancy, delivery and its complications and wellbeing of the infant and the mother after the delivery. The special features of the book are: • exhaustive coverage of the core areas as relevant to the undergraduate syllabus • special focus on Indian conditions where there are socioeconomic aspects related to health care like poverty, domestic violence and gender discrimination. The book seeks to sensitise the student to these aspects • stress on evidence-based medicine and clinical evaluation to reduce the cost of seeking health care • section on demography and contraception is also tailored to Indian conditions
Asha Oumachigui, R Soundararaghavan and S Habeebullah have considerable experience in teaching undergraduate and postgraduates at JIPMER, Puducherry. They have brought innovative methodologies to medical teaching
1. Obstetrics: An Overview 2. Ethical Issues 3. Gender Sensitisation 4. Reproductive and Child Health Programme 5. Communication and Counselling 6. Elements of Reproduction and Embryology 7. Development of the Fetus and Placenta 8. Maternal Changes in Pregnancy 9. Diagnosis of Pregnancy 10. Antenatal Care 11. Nutrition During Pregnancy 12. Drugs in Pregnancy 13. Imaging in Obstetrics 14. Screening for Congenital Anomalies 15. Assessment of Fetal Wellbeing 16. Abortions 17. Medical Termination of Pregnancy 18. Ectopic Pregnancy 19. Gestational Trophoblastic Disease 20. Amniotic Fluid and its Abnormalities 21. The Maternal Pelvis and the Fetus 22. Physiology of Labour 23. Mechanism of Normal Labour 24. Conduct of Normal Labour 25. Obstetric Analgesia and Anesthesia 26. Prolonged Labour 27. Occipitoposterior Position,Face and Brow Presentations 28. Breech and Shoulder Presentations 29. Multiple Pregnancy 30. Induction of Labour 31. Vaginal Operative Delivery 32. Cesarean Section 33. Complications of Third Stage of Labour 34. Care of the Newborn 35. Normal Puerperium 36. Lactation and Breastfeeding 37. Abnormal Puerperium 38. Hyperemesis Gravidarum 39. Hypertensive Disorders 40. Antepartum Hemorrhage 41. Preterm Labour 42. Prelabour Rupture of Membranes 43. Prolonged Pregnancy 44. Rhesus Isoimmunisation 45. Fetal Growth Restriction 46. Anemia 47. Heart Disease 48. Respiratory Disorders 49. Diabetes Mellitus 50. Thyroid Disease 51. Urinary Tract Infections 52. Sexually Transmitted Infections 53. Tropical Infections 54. Epilepsy 55. Psychiatric Disorders 56. Diseases of the Liver 57. Common Surgical Causes of Acute Abdomen in Pregnancy 58. Gynecological Disorders Complicating Pregnancy 59. Shock in Obstetrics 60. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation 61. Demography, Population Control and Contraception 62. Natural and Conventional Methods of Contraception 63. Hormonal Contraceptives 64. Intrauterine Contraceptive Devices 65. Surgical Contraception 66. Emergency Contraception