Education in Obstetrics for General Practice

Forty Years of Obstetrics in General Practice

lived through a similar period of drastic changes. Prompted by a desire to produce something useful in retirement, I thought that a survey of my own experience of obstetrics in general practice over a period of forty years in Bristol might be of some interest and value. On reaching retirement at the age of 66 I had a mass of old pre-National Health Service maternity records, all on a private ba...

A Guide to Obstetrics in General Practice

This book contains information and instruction for the general practitioner. Apparently the book has been written with an eye to the nature of the information required by the practitioners as indicated in the ' Any Question' column in the British Medical Journal. The informations provided are entirely practical in nature. The theoretical discussions have been purposely kept out. To illustrate t...

Rheumatology education for general practice.

Audit of 26 years of obstetrics in general practice.

To assess the feasibility and quality of general practitioner obstetrics an audit of 1223 consecutive obstetric deliveries over 26 years was carried out with standard clinical records. The perinatal mortality of 9.0 per 1000 births was significantly better than the national average of about 19.0 per 1000 for the overall period. During the audit home deliveries virtually stopped. The proportion ...

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...