Changes in obstetrics.

Changes in Thought in a Half Century of Obstetrics

and particularly obstetrical problems are approached to-day with that of fifty years ago, I shall trust largely to an analysis of my reactions to my contacts and environment in estimating the factors that have most influenced my outlook. Victorian Medicine.?-Looking back over the Medicine of the late Victorian period, its thought seems to have been overweighted by progress in morbid anatomy and...

General Obstetrics and Gynecology: Obstetrics

Objective: We tested if fetal pulse oximetry in addition to electronic fetal monitoring (CTG) and scalp blood sampling improves the accuracy of fetal assessment and allows safe reduction of operative deliveries ( 50%) and scalp blood sampling ( 50%) performed because of nonreassuring fetal status. Study design: A randomized controlled trial was conducted in 146 patients with term pregnancies in...

Obstetrics

The prevention and treatment of post-partum hemorrhage is a subject of never-failing interest to the practitioner, and in view of the sudden and frequently fatal catastrophe which may ensue as the result of its occurrence, every attempt to suggest new or improved methods for either its prevention or cure demands careful examination. Stanmore Bishop,1 as the result of an article on this subject,...

Obstetrics

every month, after a period of prodromes consisting of headache and general lassitude, a flow of clear non-coagulable blood took place from the right ear, in which no pre-existing local lesion could be determined. After three years the ordinary genital discharge began to take place, gradually replacing that from the ear, which only occurred every two or three months. The author remarks that the...

Obstetrics