Consent Issues and Complications in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Sinha - Consent Issues
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Authors/editors: Prabha Sinha
ISBN: 978-0-9537901-5-9
Page count: 164
Publisher: Rosewell Publishing
Publication year: 2005

Increased litigation can partly be blamed on the changing health care system. Patients and society on the whole are strongly ambivalent about doctors. In recent years, a lot of emphasis has been placed on obtaining consent for surgical and medical procedures to avoid litigation. This has become an integral part of clinical risk management and clinical governance. This book has been designed to help doctors understand the types of consent, how to obtain consent and it's medico-legal implications when things go wrong. Another aim of this book is to provide an invaluable on the spot reference for various operations and their complications, ways and means of minimising risk and dealing with difficult situations.

Table of contents:

Section one

  1. Definition and types of Consent
  2. Obtaining Consent
  3. Law and Consent
  4. Consent in special circumstances
  5. Flow chart showing the stepwise procedure for obtaining consent
  6. Education and research
  7. Consent related to blood transfusions
  8. Miscellaneous elements of a surgical procedure
  9. Consent to screening
  10. Taking steps to avoid complaints

Section two

  1. Complications in spontaneous normal vaginal delivery
  2. Complications and consent issues in episiotomy
  3. Complications of instrumental delivery
  4. Consent issues and complications of caesarean delivery
  5. Complications in induction of labour
  6. Complications due to invasive prenatal diagnostic testing
  7. Complications in induction of labour
  8. Complications due to invasive prenatal diagnostic testing
  9. Complications of cervical cerclage
  10. Complications of external cephalic version
  11. Complications of Anti-D
  12. Postnatal consent and complications in immunisations for neonates
  13. Intrauterine fetal death
  14. How to reduce legal risk in shoulder dystocia
  15. Complications of manual removal of placenta
  16. Neurologic injury associated with pregnancy and delivery
  17. Complications of spinal anaesthesia
  18. Complications associated with epidural anaesthesia
  19. Complications of general anaesthesia
  20. Complications of local anaesthesia
  21. Section three
  22. Complications related to gynaecological procedures
  23. Complications after gynaecological surgery
  24. Injury to urinary tract and associated organs during gynaecological lsurgery
  25. Complications of hysteroscopy
  26. Complications laparoscopy
  27. Surgical management of excessive menstrual loss
  28. Complications of hysterectomy
  29. Complications of dilation and curettage
  30. Complications of operation related to urinary incontinence
  31. Complications of vaginal repair
  32. Complications and counselling for female sterilisation
  33. Complications of abortion
  34. Complications of erpc
  35. Complications of colposcopy and cervical biopsy
  36. Marsupialization of Bartholin's cyst
  37. Vaginal pessaries
  38. Complications of radical vulvar surgery and groin lymphadenectomy
  39. Complication of artificial reproductive techniques
  40. Contraception
  41. Hormone replacement therapy
  42. Potential complications of vaginoplasty

Appendix

  1. Common general postoperative complications
  2. Complications of common procedures in obstetrics and gynaecology
  3. General complications occurring during operative procedures
  4. Complications of radiotherapy
  5. Complications of chemotherapy
  6. Form consent
  7. Medication use and common exposures during pregnancy counselling about risks

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