ABSTRACT

This book covers the management of all major emergencies and professional dilemmas (e.g. issues of consent) facing the gynaecologist, ranging from problems of a medical nature through to those requiring surgical intervention. Managing Gynaecological Emergencies provides a series of management plans, flow charts and algorithms not found together in

chapter |7 pages

ACUTE ABDOMINAL PAIN

chapter |4 pages

OVARIAN HYPERSTIMULATION SYNDROME

chapter |6 pages

UPPER TRACT PELVIC INFECTION

chapter |3 pages

TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME

chapter |4 pages

GENITAL TRACT TRAUMA

chapter |7 pages

MANAGEMENT OF THE RAPE VICTIM

chapter |4 pages

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OR ABUSE

chapter |4 pages

EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION

chapter |6 pages

CHILDHOOD EMERGENCIES

chapter |6 pages

NON-PREGNANT CAUSES OF VAGINAL BLEEDING

chapter |9 pages

ECTOPIC PREGNANCY

chapter |11 pages

LAPAROSCOPY

chapter |3 pages

HYSTEROSCOPY

chapter |7 pages

HYSTERECTOMY

chapter |2 pages

ACUTE RETENTION OF URINE

chapter |2 pages

CHRONIC RETENTION OF URINE

chapter |1 pages

HAEMATURIA

chapter |3 pages

URINE LEAKAGE PER VAGINUM— FISTULAE

chapter |3 pages

TRAUMA TO THE LOWER URINARY TRACT

chapter |1 pages

POST–OPERATIVE ANURIA

chapter |1 pages

RENAL COLIC

chapter |5 pages

HAEMORRHAGE CONTROL

chapter |3 pages

UNSUSPECTED GYNAECOLOGICAL MALIGNANCY

chapter |2 pages

POST-OPERATIVE PAIN

chapter |2 pages

POST–OPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING

chapter |1 pages

APPENDIX 2

chapter |7 pages

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION

chapter |5 pages

ANAPHYLAXIS

chapter |5 pages

TRANSFUSION REACTIONS

chapter |4 pages

DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS

chapter |2 pages

PULMONARY EMBOLISM

chapter |3 pages

MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

chapter |2 pages

PULMONARY OEDEMA

chapter |3 pages

ACUTE SEVERE ASTHMA

chapter |2 pages

CHEST INFECTION

chapter |3 pages

PYREXIA OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN

chapter |3 pages

URINARY TRACT INFECTION

chapter |3 pages

SEPTIC SHOCK

chapter |3 pages

CONFUSION

chapter |4 pages

EMERGENCIES IN TERMINAL ILLNESS

chapter |5 pages

CONSENT