Munro Kerr's Operative Obstetrics

11th Edition Centenary Edition

By Thomas F. Baskett, MB, BCh, BAO, FRCS(C), FRCS(Ed), FRCOG, FACOG, DHMSA, Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Andrew A. Calder, MB, ChB, MD, FRCS(Ed), FRCP(Glas), FRCP(Ed), FRCOG, HonFCOG(SA), Professor and Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Edinburgh, UK; and Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, MB, BS, MD, PhD, FRCS(Ed), FRCOG, FACOG, HonFCOG(SA), Professor and Head, Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St George?s University Medical School, London, UK

• Introduction
• Human birth
• Obstetric risk management
• Assessment and management of labour
• Fetal surveillance in labour
• Fetal asphyxia
• Induction of labour
• Preterm labour
• Assisted vaginal delivery
• Malpresentations
• Shoulder dystocia
• Caesarean section
• Vaginal birth after caesarean section
• Uterine rupture
• Breech delivery
• Twin and triplet delivery
• Cord prolapse
• Antepartum haemorrhage
• Postpartum haemorrhage
• Retained placenta
• Acute uterine inversion
• Lower genital tract trauma
• Haemorrhagic shock
• Disseminated intravascular coagulation
• Amniotic fluid embolism
• Analgesia and anaesthesia
• Procedures and techniques: Acute tocolysis
• Version
• Uterine tamponade
• Uterine compression sutures
• Pelvic vessel ligation and embolisation
• Obstetric hysterectomy
• Symphysiotomy
• Destructive operations on the fetus