The Management of Labour, 4th Edition
Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Gita Arjun, Uma Ram
Price
1495
ISBN
9789393330826
Language
English
Pages
558
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
180 x 240 mm
Year of Publishing
2025
Territorial Rights
World
Imprint
Universities Press

Current knowledge of medicine is a vast ocean of new ideas and fresh data. New recommendations and guidelines are accumulating at a rate that the practitioner has difficulty keeping up with. Postgraduates in obstetrics must keep abreast with this knowledge, not only to face their examinations but also to be able to go forth in their career and provide the best support to the women under their care.

The fourth edition of The Management of Labour has been updated extensively to enable the obstetrician to provide the safest care for the woman in labour. The book has been divided into clear, rational, practical, and well-illustrated sections that progress from the physiology of labour to the management of normal and complicated labour. New concepts in patient care such as enhanced recovery after cesarean (ERAC) have been included to make the book absolutely current. To help the obstetrician acquire balanced and comprehensive skills, immediate postpartum care, management of the normal and abnormal puerperium, the immediate care of the newborn in the labour room and neonatal resuscitation have also been included. To round off the book, respectful maternity care and the role of the birth companion are important issues that have been addressed in a dedicated chapter.

Important information has been presented in tables, algorithms, and ‘key points’ for easy recall.

Contributions from experts in the field make this book a practical and real-world guide to the practice of obstetrics. The focus is clearly on the parturient and the common problems faced in labour. Evidence-based recommendations present the obstetric caregiver with unambiguous and precise clinical guidelines.

The postgraduate student as well as the practitioner will find this book an invaluable companion in the practice of obstetrics.

Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Professor Emeritus, St George’s University of London; formerly President, International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO), British Medical Association, and Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, UK

Dr Gita Arjun, Former Senior Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, E V Kalyani Medical Centre, Director, E V Kalyani Medical Foundation, Chennai

Dr Uma Ram, Director and Lead Consultant, Seethapathy Clinic and Hospital, Chennai; All India Chair, AICC RCOG

Section I: The Process of Labour
1. The Physiology of Labour                                                         
Sheila Balakrishnan
2. Mechanics, Mechanism, and Stages of Labour                       
Lakshmi Seshadri

Section II: Intrapartum Management
3. Respectful Obstetric Care and the Role of a Birth Companion             
Sirisha Rao G, Evita Fernandez
4. Management of the First and Second Stages of Normal Labour           
Gita Arjun
5. Management of the Third Stage of Labour     
Basab Mukherjee, Poushali Sanyal
6. Monitoring Labour: Partograph to Labour Care Guide            
Anandhi Venkatesan, Uma Ram
7. Episiotomy: What Does the Evidence Say?    
A Tamilselvi
8. Fetal Surveillance in Labour              
Sabaratnam Arulkumaran
9. Labour Analgesia                 
M Subrahmanyam, Sailaja K
10. Immediate Postpartum Monitoring and Care (Including Postpartum Collapse)            
Jiji Elizabeth Mathews, Richa Sasmita Tirkey

Section III: Intrapartum Management of Complicated Labour
11. Abnormalities in the Latent Phase and the Active First Stage of Labour         
Kalaivani Ramalingam
12. Abnormalities in the Second Stage of Labour           
Manjiri Khare, Gauri Karandikar
13. Abnormalities in the Third Stage of Labour: Postpartum Hemorrhage and Retained Placenta            
Sam Ononge, Andrew D Weeks
14. Induction and Augmentation of Labour        
Shobana Mahadevan, Amritha Karthik
15. Identification and Management of Fetal Distress       
Sabaratnam Arulkumaran
16. Meconium-Stained Amniotic Fluid              
N Hephzibah Kirubamani
17. Management of Labour in Multiple Pregnancy                     
Nashwa Eltaweel, Helena Blakeway, Asma Khalil
18. Obstructed Labour and Uterine Rupture                   
Kanika Chopra, Manju Puri
19. Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Labour and Delivery                     
Gita Arjun
20. Role of Ultrasound in the Labour Room                   
Mariya Kovalenko, Sana Usman, Arwa Hanidu, Christoph Lees

Section IV: Operative Obstetrics
21. Operative Vaginal Delivery             
Tulika Singh, Samera A Khalil
22. Cesarean Section: Procedure and Technique            
Gita Arjun
23. Reducing Cesarean Section Rates                
Gita Arjun
24. Peripartum Hysterectomy                
V P Paily, G Raji Raj

Section V: Obstetric Skills
25. Prevention and Management of Perineal Trauma Occurring in Childbirth       
Stergios K Doumouchtsis, Maria Patricia Roman
26. Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Delivery                     
Pranathi Reddy
27. Breech Delivery                 
Lakshmi Seshadri
28. Shoulder Dystocia              
B S Susheela Rani

Section VI: Management of Obstetric Complications
29. Antepartum Hemorrhage                 
Nishita Mehta, Amarnath Bhide
30. Preterm Labour and Preterm Prelabour Rupture of Membranes                      
Sareena Gilvaz, Deepthi D Nair
31. Late Term and Postterm Pregnancy              
Nozer Sheriar
32. Late Intrauterine Fetal Death and Stillbirth               
A G Radhika, Richa Aggarwal
33. Management of Labour with a Growth-Restricted Fetus                    
Tony Tan
34. Management of Labour with Fetal Macrosomia                    
Manisha Madhai Beck, Nitin Alexander Abraham
35. Malpositions and Malpresentations (Other Than Breech)                   
Jyothi Unni
36. Management of Labour in Women with Fibroids                  
Gita Arjun

Section VII: Management of Labour with Medical Disorders
37. The Hypertensive Woman in Labour                        
Nuzhat Aziz, Sailaja Devi Kallur
38. Management of Labour in a Woman with Diabetes               
Lakshmi Shanmugasundaram, Uma Ram
39. Other Medical Disorders: Cardiac Disorders, Antiphospholipid Syndrome, Hepatic Disorders,
and Epilepsy                
Tarakeswari S

Section VIII: Management of Labour with Current Infection
40. SARS-CoV-2                     
Sophie Relph, Pat O’Brien
41. Chickenpox                        
Mandira Dasgupta, Bhaskar Pal
42. HIV                       
Pallavi Chandra Ravula, Hemamalini Vadlamani

Section IX: Neonatal Care
43. Routine Care of the Newborn                      
Swathi Padankatti
44. Neonatal Resuscitation                    
V Lakshmi

Section X: The Puerperium
45. The Normal Puerperium      
Mathangi Thirunavakkarasu
46. Abnormalities in the Puerperium                 
Muralidhar V Pai

Index