Editorial Review:

Must-have expertise for today's challenging fast-changing field! This classic reference is your place to turn for all of the guidelines you need on the diagnosis, therapy, and management of both normal and high-risk patients. Inside you'll find state-of-the-art guidance on the challenges you face, with new chapters covering placental anatomy and physiology · non-invasive prenatal diagnostic techniques · abnormal labor · operative vaginal delivery · cervical incompetence · amniotic fluid disorders · thrombophilias · and thromboembolic disorders, plus comprehensive updates throughout. Plus, you'll have access to the complete contents online - fully searchable - as well as all of the illustrations for use in electronic presentations. The result is essential, practice-proven know-how you need to enhance your clinical success.

• Cover the important foundations of basic science and physiology of normal and complicated obstetrics.
• Includes evidence based information on normal obstetric practice.
• Presents in-depth information on problems encountered in clinical practice, as well as high-risk obstetrics.

• Presents the work of four new associate editors - broadening the book's international appeal - as well as more than 20 new contributors for fresh practice perspectives.
  
• Offers new chapters covering placental anatomy and physiology · non-invasive prenatal diagnostic techniques · abnormal labor · operative vaginal delivery · cervical incompetence · amniotic fluid disorders · thrombophilias · and thromboembolic disorders.
  
• Features a new full-color format for easier reference, as well as a new appendix of normal values.
  
• Distills the expertise of leading contributors from the fields of maternal-fetal medicine, anesthesiology, neonatology, internal medicine, dermatology, genetics, and ethics - providing a real-life, interdisciplinary perspective.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

Textbook for OB-GYNs:

This textbook was recommended by our local OB-GYN specialist. We reviewed it and agreed prior to shipping them to all of the teaching universities we have been working with in Romania. Nearly 1500 pages of practical and intelligent information in an easy to read format.

Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies: Book with Online Access (Obstetrics Normal & Problem Pregnancies (Gabbe)):

This is an excellent book that is well written. It is part of my required books for my certified nurse midwifery program at Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing. I highly recommend it.

Pocket Companion to Accompany Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies (Paperback):

I'm a certified-nurse midwife and I love this book. It's pretty much everything that's in the medical text, Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies, minus the research data.
It's small and portable and actually a pleasure to read.
I hope there's an updated version coming out soon - this one was published in 2002.

The easier-to-read "Bible" of Obstetrics:

There are two texts that are considered the most authoritative on the subject of Obstetrics. Williams is edited by the staff at Parkland, the largest Obstetric hospital in the U.S. and not surprisingly, they consider their text to be "the premier source for the specialty". Williams is also academically dry.

Gabbe, by comparison, is easier to read and covers essentially the same material. This text is written in a way that that I feel you don't have to be an OB Geek to follow the various points. This is... more info

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