Simulation is a practical and safe approach to the acquisition and maintenance of task-oriented and behavioral skills across the spectrum of medical specialties, including obstetrics and gynecology. Since the 1990s, the profession of obstetrics and gynecology has come to appreciate the value of simulation and major steps are being taken toward incorporating this technique into specialty-specifi...

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...

1 Institute of Traditional Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 11221, Taiwan 2Department of Chinese Medicine, Taipei City Hospital, Yangming Branch, Taipei 11111, Taiwan 3Institute of OccupationalMedicine and Industrial Hygiene, National TaiwanUniversity College of PublicHealth, Taipei 10055, Taiwan 4Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, National Chen...

José Martínez-Más1, Paloma Gómez-Leal2, Juan Pedro Martínez-Cendán2,3, Andrés Bueno-Crespo4, Sebastián Ortiz-Reina5, Carmen López-Peña5, María Isabel Sánchez-Zapata2, Manuel Remezal-Solano2,3 1 Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Virgen de la Arrixaca University Clinic Hospital, Murcia, Spain. 2 Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Santa Lucía University Hospital, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain. 3...

These three handsome volumes, written in the European tradition, represent a commendable and ambitious undertaking, original in that considerable effort is made to integrate gynecology with the broader aspects of medicine. Volume I commences with chapters on the anatomy and evolution of the female pelvic organs with considerably more extensive accounts than are found in most texts. The chapters...