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Easily manage the care, assessments and complications of your pregnant patients, in addition to the newly classified individual fetal patients. The updated and revised eighth edition of the popular Manual of Obstetrics skilfully addresses the care, assessment and complications, as well as other emerging issues handled daily by obstetric providers. Top-rated among obstetrics manuals, this practical, authoritative text is both an excellent desk reference and on-the-spot guide. Essential data and commentary are provided on all the major areas of obstetric care, obstetric complications, maternal complications, fetal assessment, fetal complications and neonatal care. This edition also includes new information on fetal intervention issues and on endocrine disorders. A new chapter on Fetal Therapy addresses the rising consensus that the fetus should be considered an individual patient.