MUNRO KERR´S OPERATIVE OBSTETRICS, 13TH EDITION

• ANTENATAL
1. Human birth
2. Preterm labour and delivery
3. Cervical cerclage
4. Antepartum haemorrhage: an overview
5. Vasa praevia
6. Abruption
7. Induction of labour
• LABOUR AND DELIVERY
8. Assessment and management of labour and delivery
9. Fetal surveillance in labour
10. Fetal asphyxia
11. Acute tocolysis
12. Cord prolapse
13. The use of oxytocin to accelerate or induce labour
14. Malpresentations and malposition
15. Assisted vaginal delivery: an overview
16. Assisted vaginal delivery: non-rotational forceps and manual rotation
17. Assisted vaginal delivery: vacuum
18. Assisted vaginal delivery: rotational forceps
19. Shoulder dystocia
20. Breech delivery
21. Twin and triplet delivery
22. Labour and delivery after previous caesarean
23. Uterine rupture
24. Caesarean section: controversies, audit and indications
25. Caesarean section: procedure
26. Caesarean section: clinical challenges
27. Additional procedures at caesarean section: salpionghectomy, myomectomy, ovarian surgery and hysterectomy
28. Placenta praevia and the morbidly adherent placenta
29. Haemorrhagic shock, disseminated intravascular coagulation and obstetric resuscitation
30. Thromboprophylaxis in labour and delivery
31. Amniotic fluid embolism
32. Analgesia and anaesthesia in labour and delivery
33. Labour and delivery in high-BMI women
• POSTPARTUM
34. Postpartum haemorrhage
35. Retained placenta
36. Uterine and vaginal tamponade
37. Uterine compression sutures
38. Pelvic vessel ligation and embolization: obstetric and radiological perspective
39. Lower genital tract trauma
40. Acute uterine inversion
41. Symphysiotomy
42. Destructive operations on the fetus
• ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS
43. Perinatal audit in labour and delivery - safety, consistency and quality
44. Competence and skills training

New To This Edition:
• New chapter to cover the care of the obese mother in labour.
• Management areas and guidelines fully updated (e.g. for fetal monitoring in labour).
• Covers significant new research

Authors
• Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Professor Emeritus, Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St George’s University of London, London, UK.
• Michael Robson, MD