High Risk Pregnancy, Text with CD-ROM

Comprehensive and clinical, the 3rd Edition of this popular text examines the full range of challenges in general obstetrics, medical complications of pregnancy, prenatal diagnosis and fetal disease, and management of labor and delivery. World-recognized authorities employ an evidence-based management approach throughout and explore a series of options to equip you to select the most appropriate treatment for each patient. A significantly updated appendix of Normal Values for both the fetus and pregnant woman enable you to chart and track your patients’ conditions. Plus, clearly designed boxes summarize management options for each condition, saving you time and placing a wealth of expert guidance at your fingertips.

Key Features

Examines a full-range of high-risk pregnancy problems—and offers expert advice and treatment options—to prepare you for clinical challenges and save you time in addressing them.

Uses a consistent organization and at-a-glance summary boxes for fast and easy reference.

New to this Edition

Offers a significantly updated appendix of Normal Values for both the fetus and pregnant woman to help you chart your patients’ conditions.

Includes a bonus CD-ROM, containing illustrations from the book, video clips, and summaries of management approaches, for convenient access to the material where and when you need it.

Presents increased coverage of genetics—along with information on fetal pain, fetal surgery, and other developments in fetal medicine¬.

Delivers revised "Summary of Management Approaches" boxes providing you with a range of evidence-based management options from which to choose.

Features two-color throughout with numerous four-color images for greater accuracy in confirming your clinical diagnoses.

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Table of Contents
I. Prepregnancy

1. Prepregnancy antecedents of HRP

2. Genetics

II. Early Prenatal

3. Organization of prenatal care, identification of risk (screening)

4. Early pregnancy problems

5. Recurrent miscarriage

6. Mid-pregnancy problems

7. First trimester screening for fetal abnormalities

8. Screening for fetal abnormality

9. Counseling and management of an abnormal screening or diagnostic test for fetal abnormality

10. Invasive procedures for prenatal diagnosis

III. Late prenatal - fetal

11. Critical evaluation of prenatal fetal assessment methods

12. Abnormalities of fetal growth

13. Abnormalities of amniotic fluid

14. Fetal hemolytic disease

15. Fetal thrombocytopenia

16. Fetal arrhythmias

17. Fetal cardiac abnormalities

18. Craniospinal and facial abnormalities

19. Genitourinary abnormalities

20. GIT abnormalities

21. Skeletal abnormalities

22. Fetal thyroid & adrenal disorders

23. Fetal thyroid & adrenal disorders

24. Fetal problems in multiple pregnancy

25. Fetal hydrops

26. Fetal death

IV. Infection

27. Presentation and diagnosis of fetal infection

28. Hepatides

29. HIV

30. Rubella, Measles, Mumps, Varicella and Parvovirus

31. Cytomegalovirus, herpes simplex, adenovirus, coxsackie virus, human papilloma virus

32. Bacterial infections and vaginitis

33. Parasitic infections

V. Late prenatal - maternal

34. Substance abuse

35. Medication during pregnancy

36. Hypertension

37. Cardiac

38. Respiratory disorders

39. Anemia and white cell disorders

40. Malignancies of haematological and Immunological systems

41. Bleeding disorders

42. Clotting disorders

43. Thromboembolic disease

44. Autoimmune disease

45. Diabetes

46. Thyroid

47. Pituitary/adrenal disorders in pregnancy

48. Hepatic and gastrointestinal disease

49. Neuromuscular disorders

50. Renal disorders

51. Spine and joint disorders in pregnancy

52. Skin disease

53. Malignant disease

54. Pregnancy following transplantation

55. Trauma

56. Psychiatric illness

VI. Prenatal - general

57. Abdominal pain

58. Non-malignant gynecology

59. Bleeding in late pregnancy

60. Multiple pregnancy - obstetric management

61. Screening for PROM and preterm labor

62. Preterm labor

63. PROM including chorioamnionitis

64. Breech

65. Unstable lie, maplpresentation & positions

66. Prolonged pregnancy

67. Labor management - overview

68. IOL & TOP

69. Poor progress

70. Shoulder dystocia

71. Fetal distress

72. Maternal analgesia and anesthesia: Indications and Implications

73. Perineal repair & pelvic floor injury

74. Assisted vaginal delivery

75. Vaginal delivery after previous caesarean section

76. Caesarean section

VII. Postnatal

77. PPH and other problems of the third stage

78. Puerperal problems

79. Major obstetric hemorrhage including DIC

80. Critical care of the obstetric patient

81. Domestic violence

82. Resuscitation of newborn

Appendix

Normal values



Author Information
By David K. James, MA, MD, FRCOG, DCH, Professor of Fetomaternal Medicine, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK; Philip J. Steer, BS, MD, FRCOG, Professor, Imperial College School of Medicine and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK; Carl P. Weiner, MD, MBA, FACOG, Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences; and Professor, Physiology The University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; and Bernard Gonik, MD, FACOG, Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Grace Hospital, Detroit, MI