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Revised and updated for its Fourth Edition, this practical, portable, and affordable handbook is designed for rapid reference in the office or emergency room. It focuses on diagnosis and treatment of common emergencies in female patients and features numerous treatment algorithms, bulleted lists, and tables, plus ample illustrations including ultrasound. Coverage addresses all emergent conditions and non-emergent problems, such as sexually transmitted diseases, that frequently present in emergency departments. This edition has been updated to address current challenges such as complications arising from medical and surgical abortion, medical and psychological problems arising from sexual assault and other gynecologic traumas, and emergent conditions due to chemical-biological warfare.
Rising numbers of Cesarean sections and maternal obesity and associated health risks have resulted in increasingly complex Cesarean deliveries and outcomes, requiring today’s surgeon to stay attuned to evolving best practices and master new surgical techniques. This first-of-its-kind reference provides step-by-step, highly illustrated guidance on managing challenging Cesarean sections with a focus on the challenges of abnormal placentation and strategies to manage it. In a concise, readable format, this text is designed to help surgeons anticipate intraoperative and postoperative challenges and optimize outcomes for mother and baby.
Medical emergencies in the pregnant patient / Saju Joy, Laura Hughes -- Acute abdominal pain in pregnancy / Richard Boothby -- Ectopic pregnancy / David Boyd, Andrew Kaunitz, & Catherine McIntyre -- Trauma in pregnancy / David Caro, Lynnette Doan-Wiggins -- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation during pregnancy / David Caro, Lynnette Doan-Wiggins -- Perimortem cesarean section / Deborah S. Lyon -- Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: preeclampsia, eclampsia / Luis Sanchez-Ramos -- Bleeding in pregnancy / David C. Jones -- Infections in pregnancy / David C. Adair / Shawn P. Stallings -- Pregnancy women & chemical-biological warfare / Shawn P. Stallings, Joseph H. Kipikasa, and C. David Adair -- Mosqu...
Part of a series in which physicians offer guidance on frequently encountered emergencies, this book contains a review of obstetric emergencies. Topics covered include ectopic pregnancy and bleeding in early pregnancy.
The proliferation of life-prolonging technology in recent years has made the controversy over the "right to die" and physician-assisted suicide one of the most explosive medical and ethical issues of our day. Dr. Jack Kevorkian's "suicide machine" has commanded front-page coverage for several years, while in 1994 Oregon passed a measure allowing the terminally ill to obtain lethal prescriptions for suicide, and other states have placed similar proposals on their ballots.
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Reviews the issues involved in most of the principal medical-ethical dilemmas that face our society from a multidisciplinary point of view. Updated to reflect the many changes that have occurred in medical-ethical issues.
In today's society, where life and death are increasingly becoming matters of choice, life is on the line. Kilner explores topics such as "active" and "passive" euthanasia, suicide, quality of life, living wills, and the criteria for deciding who will receive access to vital treatments that cannot be provided to all. Contrasts a Biblically-grounded ethics with other ethical approaches commonly employed today.
Medical experimentation on human subjects during the Third Reich raises deep moral and ethical questions. This volume features prominent voices in the filed of bioethics reflecting on a wide rang of topics and issues. Amid all contemporary discussions of ethical in science, many ethicists, historians, Holocaust specialists and medical professionals strongly feel that we should understand the past in order to make more enlightened ethical decisions.