Overview
Offers a comprehensive reference guide to forceps delivery techniques
Easy to understand with high-quality animations and color drawings
Presents a new and practical method for assessing fetal descent
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About this book
This book offers a highly informative guide to forceps devices and delivery techniques. Extensive figures and animations offer readers vivid insights into the fetus station, pelvis, and inserted forceps. The book covers normal presentation and abnormal rotation, presentation and attitudes, and especially focuses on the assessment of fetal descent. It discusses the problem with conventional fetal station, and explains the revised one based on the trapezoidal plane.
Instrumental delivery is chosen in cases of worrisome fetal status, protracted labor, or maternal fatigue. Forceps can provides a greater pulling power than vacuum extraction, and the fetus can be delivered in a short time, though this technique calls for experience and technical proficiency. The book argues that in order to ensure safe and reliable forceps delivery, assessment of the fetal station and the site of the largest fetal head circumference is critical.
The book offers a new and indispensable reference guide for all obstetricians, not only for residents, but also for all experienced professionals involved in the training of beginners, and even for those using vacuum extraction who would like to assess the fetus more objective and practically.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Satoru Takeda, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology,
Juntendo University, Faculty of Medicine,
Tokyo, Japan
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Assessment of Fetal Descent and Forceps Delivery
Editors: Satoru Takeda
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4735-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-4734-3Published: 02 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3841-0Published: 22 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4735-0Published: 04 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 39
Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations
Topics: Gynecology