Williams Obstetrics 2022

* High-quality color printing
* Same content as the original book
* Affordable alternative for personal reading
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Over its 26 editions, Williams Obstetrics has aimed to serve
practicing obstetricians and midwives in the bedside care o
their patients. With its detailed explanations o disease pathophysiology and treatment undamentals, it provides a bedrock
text or residents who are training in Obstetrics or in Family
Medicine specialties. Fellows in Maternal–Fetal Medicine will
beneit rom its additional discussions o complicated pathology
and management. Last, Williams Obstetrics can aid specialists
who act as consultants or gravidas with non-pregnancy-related
disorders. Speciically, each chapter in Section 12 ocuses on a
speciic organ system, the normal physiological changes and
requent disorders o that system in pregnancy, and suitable
treatment options.
For this 26th edition, we continue to present the detailed
staples o basic obstetrics such as maternal anatomy and physiology, preconceptional and prenatal care, labor, delivery, and
the puerperium. hese accompany detailed discussions o
obstetrical complications exempliied by preterm labor, hemorrhage, hypertension, and many more. o emphasize the “M” in
Maternal–Fetal Medicine, we continue to instruct on the many
medical and surgical disorders that can complicate pregnancy.
And, our second patient—the etus—has accrued especial
attention with an entire section devoted to diagnosis and treatment o etal disorders. For all o these, we once again emphasize the science-based practice o clinical obstetrics. Expert
clinical pearls add depth to these discussions and are written or
busy practitioners—those “in the trenches.” o integrate all
our content, the reader o one chapter may be reerred to a di-
erent chapter that contains complementary content. his
oers a more global understanding o a given topic.
o accomplish our teaching goals, the text has been
updated with more than 3000 new literature citations through
2021. Many o the nearly 900 igures are new, and these
graphs, sonograms, magnetic resonance images, photographs,
photomicrographs, and data graphs are all in vivid color.
Much o the original artwork was rendered by our own medical illustrators.
As beore, we continue to incorporate contemporaneous
guidelines rom proessional and academic organizations such
as the American College o Obstetricians and Gynecologists,
the Society or Maternal–Fetal Medicine, the Centers or
Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes o
Health, and other authoritative sources. Many o these data are
distilled into nearly 100 tables, in which inormation has been
arranged in an easy read-and-use ormat. In addition, several
diagnostic and management algorithms are available to quickly
guide practitioners. Although we strive to cite numerous
sources and provide multiple evidence-based options or such
management schemes, we also include our own clinical experiences drawn rom the large obstetrical service at Parkland
Hospital. We are convinced that these are disciplined examples
o evidence-based obstetrics but quickly acknowledge that they
do not constitute the sole method o management.