Caesarean Section - a manual for doctors

De Costa - Caesarean Section
£23.50
£23.50
Authors/editors: Caroline de Costa and Paul Howat
ISBN: 978-0-85557-045-3
Page count: 104
Publisher: MJA Books
Publication year: 2006

This practical guide to performing a caesarean section is addressed to doctors learning how to do the surgery or performing the operation only infrequently. It is an invaluable aid to the registrar who may be faced with an out-of-hours emergency or to the general practitioner-obstetrician working in an isolated situation.

 

Table of contents:
  1. Introduction
  2. Reasons for Caesarean section anaesthesia
  3. Lower segment caesarean section - basic operative technique
  4. Difficulties in delivering the head in cephalic presentation
  5. Caesarean section for breech presentation
  6. Caesarean section for multiple births
  7. Dealing with bleeding and other intra-operative problems
  8. Caesarean section for placenta praevia
  9. Classical and low vertical caesarean section
  10. caesarean section HIV positive women
  11. Postoperative management and common problems
  12. Sterilisation at the time of caesarean section
  13. Theatre set-up and perioperative nursing care
  14. Regional anaesthesia for caesarean section
  15. General anaesthesia for caesarean section

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