PRACTICAL OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY HANDBOOK FOR THE GENERAL PRACTITIONER
by Tan Thiam Chye, Tan Kim Teng & Tay Eng Hseon (KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore)
This practical guide provides an up-to-date and concise account of many obstetric and gynaecological conditions based on evidence-based medicine. The 50 topics covered include menstrual disorders, abnormal PAP smears, ovarian cysts, subfertility, vaginal discharge, contraception and hormonal replacement therapy, pregnancy and its complications as well as common obstetrics and gynaecology (O&G) investigations.
The book includes the use of flow charts to simplify the description of investigations and treatments of the various common conditions in obstetrics and gynaecology. This is particularly useful for doctors in the primary healthcare setting in their day-to-day clinical practice. It also contains criteria for referral to OBGYN doctors. It will also serve as an essential guide for medical students and nursing staff and a handy summary for OBGYN specialists.
Contents:
- Obstetrics:
- Preconception Preparation
- Vaccinations
in Pregnancy
- Post-Abortion Care
- Postnatal Care
- Investigations in Obstetrics:
- Routine Antenatal Blood Investigations and Screening for Thalassemia
- Miscellaneous Antenatal Blood Investigations
- Antenatal Ultrasound Scans and Doppler Studies
- Gynaecology:
- Amenorrhoea
- Chronic Pelvic Pain
- Uterine Fibroids
- Sexually Transmitted Infection
- Breast Cancer Screening
- Investigations in Gynaecology:
- Ovarian Tumor Markers
- Pregnancy Hormones
- Gynaecological Ultrasound Scan and Cytology/Histology Reports
- Basal Seminal Analysis
- and other chapters
Readership: General practitioners, medical students, nurses as well as OBGYN
specialists.
“Practical Obstetrics & Gynaecology Handbook for the General Practitioner is an essential reading textbook for primary-care doctors and graduate doctors preparing for their post-graduate degrees or diplomas in Family Medicine. The practising general practitioner or family physician will be able to find ready answers to the problems they face during difficult consultations in obstetrics & gynaecology.
Practical Obstetrics & Gynaecology Handbook for the General Practitioner is a must-have Desk Reference Book for the busy general practitioner. I congratulate the authors for this much-needed and long-awaited book which will upgrade the practice of obstetrics and gynaecology by general practitioners.”
Adjunct Associate Professor Lim Lean Huat National
University of Singapore
Past President, College of Family Physicians |
“This is a book of concise, up-to-date, evidence-based knowledge for the busy family physician. In the pages are the must-know information on 11 topics of obstetric care, 5 topics of investigations in obstetrics, 28 topics of gynaecological care, and 6 topics on investigations in gynaecology. Keep it by your side in the consultation room.”
Associate Professor Goh Lee Gan
National University of Singapore
Chief Examiner, MMed (Family Medicine) (Singapore) 2005 |
“Practical Obstetrics & Gynaecology Handbook for the General Practitioner is written clearly and concisely. It covers the spectrum of common conditions that are likely to present to the family practitioner and provides a simple review with key points on management of these conditions. The liberal use of tables and charts makes it very useful as a quick reference handbook in busy clinics.
KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital continues to have the highest patient load in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Singapore. As the national hospital for women, it is indeed appropriate that such a practical handbook be published under its auspices. The authors are very experienced in the field and must be heartily congratulated for this laudable publication.”
Clinical Associate Professor Ivy Ng
National University of Singapore
Chief Executive Officer, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital |
“I will strongly recommend this handy up-to-date book for the busy GP who will be advised on first hand practical management, referral criteria & guidelines and additional information counselling for the patient on the probable actions by OBGYN after referral. It deserves a place in any Singapore GP practice clinic desk and in my OBGYN clinic as well. I would echo strongly that it is a much needed and long awaited book for the General Practitioner.”
Dr Tan Kok Hian
Editor, Singapore Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Associate Editor, Singapore Medical Journal |
“It is an excellent book that answers the everyday questions that general practitioner will ask in their clinical practice. This is a hand-book that I would thoroughly recommend to all GPs. The concise nature of the text makes it easy for busy clinicians to refer to.”
| Annals Academy of Medicine, Singapore |
"Practical Obstetrics and Gynaecology Handbook for the General Practitioner is an update and concise reference book. The authors have presented the subject material in both obstetrics and gynecology in an evidence based fashion and used tables and diagrams to provide the practitioner with logical algorithms to basic and complex problems. The authors should be congratulated on providing this outstanding textbook which can become a leading desk reference for the busy clinician and trainee."
Professor Haywood L Brown
Chair, Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Duke University Medical Center |
"Practical Obstetrics and Gynaecology Handbook for the General Practitioner is a landmark publication on Obstetrics and Gynaecology, which will no doubt go down in history as one of the must-have, widely-read, Singapore-published medical references."
| Singapore Medical Journal, Singapore |
| 216pp |
Pub. date: Jun 2006 |
