Contents: Labor and delivery

Analgesia and anesthesia

• Adverse effects of neuraxial analgesia and anesthesia for obstetrics
• Intrapartum fever
• Neuraxial analgesia and anesthesia for labor and delivery: Drugs
• Neuraxial analgesia and anesthesia for labor and delivery: Options
• Nonpharmacological approaches to management of labor pain
• Obstetric anesthetic management of women with acquired or congenital heart disease
• Pharmacologic management of pain during labor and delivery
• Preparation for labor and childbirth
• Pudendal and paracervical block
Cesarean delivery
• Anesthesia for cesarean delivery
• Cesarean delivery of the obese woman
• Cesarean delivery on maternal request
• Cesarean delivery: Postoperative issues
• Cesarean delivery: Preoperative issues
• Cesarean delivery: Technique
• Management of difficult fetal extraction at cesarean delivery
• Repeat cesarean delivery
• Trial of labor after cesarean delivery
Delivery
• Antepartum fetal heart rate assessment
• Approach to episiotomy
• Birth centers
• Home birth
• Intrapartum management and outcome of shoulder dystocia
• Intrapartum management of the low birthweight fetus
• Management of difficult fetal extraction at cesarean delivery
 • Management of normal labor and delivery
• Management of pregnancies at risk for shoulder dystocia
• Management of the fetus in occiput posterior position
• Management of the fetus with compound presentation
• Mechanism of normal labor and delivery
• Occiput transverse position
• Operative vaginal delivery
• Precipitous birth not occurring on a labor and delivery unit
• Procedure for vacuum assisted operative vaginal delivery
• Puerperal uterine inversion
• Reducing adverse obstetrical outcomes through safety sciences
• Repair of episiotomy and perineal lacerations associated with childbirth
Fetal assessment
• Antepartum fetal heart rate assessment
• Fetal acid-base physiology
• Fetal macrosomia: Diagnosis
• Umbilical cord blood acid-base analysis
Hemorrhage
• Causes and treatment of postpartum hemorrhage
• Peripartum hysterectomy
• Use of intrauterine balloon catheters for control of uterine hemorrhage
Infection transmission
• Epidemiology, transmission and prevention of hepatitis B virus infection
• Group B streptococcal infection in neonates and young infants
• Intrapartum fever
• Perinatal transmission of hepatitis C virus
Labor
• Abnormal labor: Protraction and arrest disorders
• Amnioinfusion: Indications and outcome
• Amnioinfusion: Technique
 • Antepartum fetal heart rate assessment
• Birth centers
• Continuous intrapartum support
• Face and brow presentations in labor
• Induction of labor
• Induction of labor in women with prior cesarean delivery
• Intrapartum fever
• Latent phase of labor
• Management of normal labor and delivery
• Management of the fetus in transverse lie
• Management of the fetus with compound presentation
• Management of the third stage of labor
• Mechanism of normal labor and delivery
• Neuroprotective effects of in utero exposure to magnesium sulfate
• Occiput transverse position
• Reducing adverse obstetrical outcomes through safety sciences
• Techniques for cervical ripening prior to labor induction
• Umbilical cord prolapse
Maternal medical problems
• Glycemic control in women with type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus during pregnancy
• Intrapartum and postpartum management of insulin and blood glucose
• Management of hypertension in pregnancy
• Pregnancy in women with congenital heart disease: General principles
• Pregnancy in women with congenital heart disease: Specific lesions
Multiple gestation
• Delivery of twin gestations
• Triplet pregnancy: Mid and late pregnancy complications and management