Description
"Today, the specialty of obstetrics is no longer as delivery room-oriented as it once was; it is considered as much a nonsurgical specialty as a surgical discipline. Advances in the understanding of the physiologic changes that occur in the various organ systems of the mother as a result of the pregnant state, as well as increased information on the effect of these changes on the pregnancy, have made therapy for many disease states more rational. Interest in the condition of the fetus has increased greatly as methods for measuring fetal status have become available." (From the preface)
In this compact text, Dr. Niswander emphasizes these advances and changes rather than the mechanics of the delivery process or techniques of delivery. He also includes a special discussion of the medical and surgical diseases of pregnancy in which he correlates the disease states with the normal physiologic changes during pregnancy. Other topics of particular interest to the student include congenital malformations and neonatal adaptation as well as a thoroughly modern approach to contraception, sterilization, and abortion, their techniques and complications.
Designed as a companion text to Little, Brown's highly successful GYNE- COLOGY by Thomas H. Green, Jr., M.D., Niswander's OBSTETRICS presents the latest approach to this specialty. It offers the medical student and primary care physician the well-grounded foundation in maternal physiology and fetoplacental physiology they need to provide safe, modern care for their patients.
ISBN: 0316611441
