Essentials Of Operative Gynecology: A Practical Guide to Open, Vaginal, Laparoscopic, and Hysteroscopic Gynecologic Surgery - Softcover

Whitcomb, Eleanor M.; Haverford, Clara B.; Ellison, Nathaniel R.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798184986708

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Prepare for the gynecologic operating room with a clear, anatomy-driven reference that connects patient selection, surgical route, operative technique, and postoperative safety.
Essentials of Operative Gynecology is written for OB/GYN residents, senior medical students, early-career clinicians, surgical assistants, and healthcare professionals who need a structured way to understand benign and urgent gynecologic procedures. Covering open, vaginal, laparoscopic, and hysteroscopic approaches, this textbook moves from foundational decision-making and pelvic anatomy to disease-specific operations, complications, recovery pathways, and quality improvement.
You will find a practical teaching sequence that follows how real cases are planned: indication, patient goals, imaging, anatomy, route selection, instruments, critical steps, danger zones, complications, documentation, and follow-up. The tone is clinical, direct, and focused on safe supervised learning rather than memorized technique alone.
Inside this book, you'll discover:

• Master the surgical reasoning behind hysterectomy, myomectomy, adnexal procedures, endometriosis treatment, pelvic floor repair, and intrauterine intervention.
• Build safer operative plans by connecting symptoms, imaging, anatomy, patient goals, route selection, and realistic contingency decisions.
• Recognize high-risk pelvic landmarks involving the ureter, bladder, rectum, uterine vessels, pelvic sidewall, supporting ligaments, and pelvic nerves before injury occurs.
• Apply practical perioperative habits for consent, operating room setup, positioning, instrument selection, hemostasis, VTE prevention, antibiotics, and enhanced recovery.
• Develop better crisis judgment through structured guidance on hemorrhage, urinary tract injury, bowel injury, conversion, escalation, disclosure, and postoperative surveillance.
• Improve clinical communication with documentation principles, operative note templates, handoff priorities, and patient-centered recovery instructions.
• Use appendices, surgical instrument references, suture guidance, prophylaxis tables, fluid management tools, and a comprehensive glossary for fast review between cases.

Use this professional reference to prepare more confidently, ask sharper intraoperative questions, and strengthen the judgment that supports safe supervised surgical care. Add it to your clinical library and keep it close for case preparation, teaching, and review during clinical training.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798184986708
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 470