Pocket Companion to Accompany Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies

This new resource condenses the most essential content from Gabbe, Niebyl & Simpson's authoritative text, Obstetrics: Normal & Problem Pregnancies, 4th Edition into an easy-to-read, pocket-sized format. The result is a practical, portable source of guidance on prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum care as well as the management of the most important medical and surgical complications of pregnancy.

Features Important Points at the end of each chapter that summarize key points.

Includes tables of ultrasound biometry

Provides the reference numbers from the parent text to expedite further research

Additional information as requested by readers of 1/e - labor and delivery, intrapartum fetal monitoring, prolonged pregnancy, and diabetes mellitus complicating pregnancy.

The new edition of the pocket companion includes only clinical content from the main text.

Includes fetal therapeutic interventions

Includes surgical procedures in pregnancy

Includes endocrine diseases in pregnancy

Steven G. Gabbe, MD, Dean, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; Jennifer R. Niebyl, MD,

Professor and Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Iowa, College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA; Joe Leigh Simpson, MD, Ernst W. Bertner Professor and Chairman, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX