Product Description: This edition of "Precis" covers innovations in ultrasound monitoring of both patient and fetus, management techniques for multiple gestation, approaches to measurement and diagnosis of intrauterine growth restriction, treatment of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism with low molecular weight heparin, management during pregancy of coexisting medical conditions, progesterone use and limitations, management of surgical complications, the use of fetal fibronectin as a marker of preterm birth, and comparisons of operative obstetric methods and cesarean delivery...read more

Product Description: The issue is important because it will be an evidenced based review of the current state of practice of neonatal resuscitation. The chapters will include issues related to the use of room air versus 100% Oxygen, initial strategies to ventilate the preterm and term infant, devises to ventilate the depressed infant, the role of CPAP during resuscitation, the importance of temperature management in both the preterm infant (avoidance of hypothermia) and the term infant (avoidance of hyperthermia), the role of CO2 detectors to confirm endotracheal tube positioning, the potential role of induced hypothermia as well as glucose to prevent ongoing brain injury in high risk infants, the ethics involved in initiation and discontinuation of resuscitation, the role of medications(epinephrine, naloxone, sodium bicarbonate and volume) during resuscitation including the route of administration (endotracheal and interosseous), suctioning of infant delivered in the presence of resuscitation and resuscitation where resources are limited...read more

Aimed at obstetricians and gynaecologists, this text stresses the avoidance of maternal-poetal trauma and offers a prospective form of management based on medico-legal principles. It includes legal and ethical issues relating to specific procedures and their consequences. In each chapter, the authors review a subject from both a clinical and practical perspective; while the legal editor subsequently comments on the subject from an attorney's point of view, emphasizing areas of major legal concern and outlining potential liabilities of practice. The text is organized following the chronology of normal pregnancy, ie antepartum issues, intrapartum complications and finally postpartum issues.