Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7392 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1416 pages

About the Author
Steven G. Gabbe, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; Jennifer R. Niebyl, MD, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA; Joe Leigh Simpson, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Customer Reviews

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 NOT to say that Gabbe is "OB for Dummies" or a cliff-notes version of an OB text: As Department Head of OB/GYN at a Major Hospital, I find Gabbe both authoritative and complete.

Cutting to the chase: Gabbe is easier to read than Williams, and if you need info more in-depth, you should already be a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology anyway (or at least a junior fellow), which means that you're accessing the ACOG website on-line anyway.

Very readable general reference on gynaecology
With contributions from authorities in different aspects
of obstetrics and gynaecology, this book provides the
reader with excellent overview, ranging from the anatomy
of the pelvis (in this edition moved to an appendix),
to legal an moral aspects of the profession.

Each of the chapters are relatively easy to read, but the
coverage tends to vary in depth. It is clearly not the
intention of the authors to provide the reader with last
word on each topic, but ample references show the

way further. Statistical data, when provided, are up to
date and consistent with the quoted references.

I particularly liked the chapters on labor and delivery,
malpresentations and caesarians. A lot of chapters are
dedicated to pregnancies complicated by (maternal) pathologies
and there is even a chapter on neonatal care. Some of the
authors tend to "overdo it a bit" when fulminating against
unneccessary caesarians, but considering the incidence data
in America compaired to the rest of the developed world, they
do have a point.

I can recommend this book to anyone looking for an excellent
starter in obstetrics, but I tend to disagree with another
reviewer calling it "the Nelson (in pediatrics) for OB",
because it has much less the intention to be comprehensive.

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.