Obstetrics and Gynecology [Paperback]

Updated, revised, and reorganized, the Second Editions in the Clinical Sciences reflect the format of the USMLE Step 2. Each volume systematically presents the core information of a single segment of the medical curriculum, from Family Medicine to Psychiatry. You will also learn time-honored tricks of the trade, as well as the latest advances in clinical medicine: new diagnostic tools, new therapeutic interventions, and new pharmacologic options.Updated, revised, and reorganized, the Second Editions in the Clinical Sciences reflect the format of the USMLE Step 2. Each volume systematically presents the core information of a single segment of the medical curriculum, from Family Medicine to Psychiatry. You will also learn time-honored tricks of the trade, as well as the latest advances in clinical medicine: new diagnostic tools, new therapeutic interventions, and new pharmacologic options.1 Initial Patient Interaction.- Communication Skills.- History.- Routine Examination.- Assessment and Management Plan.- Preventive Care.- 2 Normal Obstetrics.- Physiological Changes in Pregnancy.- Antepartum Care.- Normal and Abnormal Labor.- Intrapartum Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring.- Anesthesia/Analgesia in Obstetrics.- Vaginal Delivery and Operative Obstetrics.- Obstetric Procedures.- Immediate Care of the Newborn.- Postpartum Care.- Postpartum Sterilization.- Common Obstetric Abbreviations.- 3 Abnormal Obstetrics.- Spontaneous and Elective Abortion.- Ectopic Pregnancy.- Prenatal Genetic Counseling.- Antenatal Infections.- Antepartum Fetal Surveillance.- Diabetes and Pregnancy.- Hypertension in Pregnancy.- Rh and Other Isoimmunization.- Premature Labor, Preterm Rupture of Membranes.- Third Trimester Bleeding.- Multifetal Gestation.- Postterm Pregnancy.- Fetal Death.- Postpartum Hemorrhage.- Postpartum Fever.- Postpartum Depression.- 4 Gynecology.- Human Sexuality.- Contraception.- Vaginitis and Vulvitis.- Pap Smear and Benign Cervical Disease.- Pelvic Relaxation.- Urinary Incontinenlós