Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies by Steven G. Gabbe

Product Description

Up-to-date and authoritative, this new fourth edition provides easy access to vital information on current diagnoses, therapy, and management of the obstetric patient. It provides the reader with a firm foundation of knowledge in anatomy, embryology, physiology, pathology, genetics, and teratology * all essential to successful practice in this fast-changing field. Reflecting significant improvements in antepartum and intrapartum fetal monitoring, diagnostic ultrasound, and prenatal genetic diagnosis, it thoroughly covers the problems encountered in clinical practice, as well as high-risk obstetrics.
Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #614324 in Books
Published on: 2001-08-03
Number of items: 1
Binding: Hardcover
1429 pages
Editorial Reviews

Book Info
(Churchill Livingstone) Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN. Text includes significant and extensive changes throughout to provide current information. New chapters are included, surgical chapters have been combined (with the exception of cesarean delivery), and the anatomy chapter has been replaced with an appendix. Previous edition: c1996. DNLM: Obstetrics.

About the Author
Steven G. Gabbe, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; Jennifer R. Niebyl, MD, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA; Joe Leigh Simpson, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Customer Reviews

Pocket Companion to Accompany Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies (Paperback)
I'm a certified-nurse midwife and I love this book. It's pretty much everything that's in the medical text, Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies, minus the research data.

It's small and portable and actually a pleasure to read.

I hope there's an updated version coming out soon - this one was published in 2002.

The easier-to-read "Bible" of Obstetrics
There are two texts that are considered the most authoritative on the subject of Obstetrics. Williams is edited by the staff at Parkland, the largest Obstetric hospital in the U.S. and not surprisingly, they consider their text to be "the premier source for the specialty". Williams is also academically dry.

Gabbe, by comparison, is easier to read and covers essentially the same material. This text is written in a way that that I feel you don't have to be an OB Geek to follow the various points. This is NOT to say that Gabbe is "OB for Dummies" or a cliff-notes version of an OB text: As Department Head of OB/GYN at a Major Hospital, I find Gabbe both authoritative and complete.

Cutting to the chase: Gabbe is easier to read than Williams, and if you need info more in-depth, you should already be a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology anyway (or at least a junior fellow), which means that you're accessing the ACOG website on-line anyway.

Un libro basico en obstetricia
Este libro, escrito por conocedores de cada uno de los temas es una guia basica para la atencion de la paciente embarazada. Un libro que facilmente compila a varios.