Outline of obstetrics
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to obstetrics:
Obstetrics – medical specialty dealing with the care of all women's reproductive tracts and their children during pregnancy (prenatal period), childbirth and the postnatal period.
What is obstetrics?[edit]
Obstetrics can be described as all of the following:
- Medicine – medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness in human beings.
- Medical specialty – branch of medical science. After completing medical school, physicians or surgeons usually further their medical education in a specific specialty of medicine by completing a multiple year residency to become a medical specialist.
- Academic discipline – In addition to being a medical specialty, obstetrics is the study of the reproductive process within the female body, including fertilization, pregnancy and childbirth.
History of obstetrics[edit]
Medical history[edit]
Pregnancy and childbirth[edit]
Family planning[edit]
Female reproductive anatomy[edit]
- Amniotic fluid
- Amniotic sac
- Cervix
- Endometrium
- Fallopian tube
- Ovaries
- Pelvis
- Placenta
- Uterus – Also called a womb.
- Vagina
Conception[edit]
Testing[edit]
Prenatal stage[edit]
Prenatal development[edit]
Prenatal care[edit]
- Prenatal care – regular medical and nursing care recommended for women during pregnancy. Also known as antenatal care.
Prenatal monitoring[edit]
Childbirth[edit]
Preparation for childbirth[edit]
- Adaptation to extrauterine life
- Bradley method of natural childbirth
- Hypnobirthing
- Lamaze technique
- Nesting instinct
Roles during childbirth[edit]
- Doula
- Midwife
- Mother – a woman who has raised a child, given birth to a child, and/or supplied the ovum that united with a sperm which grew into a child. During childbirth, she is the patient.
- Perinatal nursing
- Men's role in childbirth
- Obstetrician
Delivery[edit]
- Pelvimetry
- Home birth
- Aspects and conditions
Postpartum issues[edit]
Complications of pregnancy and childbirth[edit]
- Complications of pregnancy ( list)
- abortion
- abruption
- breech birth
- cephalo-pelvic disproportion
- caesarean section, cesarean section, C-section
- dermatoses of pregnancy specific skin conditions during pregnancy
- diabetes
- eclampsia
- ectopic pregnancy
- epilepsy and pregnancy
- gestational diabetes
- Group B Streptococcus infection
- HELLP syndrome
- hypertension
- hysterectomy
- Intrauterine Growth Restriction (IUGR)
- macrosomia (big baby)
- malpractice
- miscarriage or stillbirth
- obstetric fistula
- obstetric hemorrhage
- Pelvic girdle pain
- placenta praevia
- pre-eclampsia
- premature birth, preterm labor or prematurity
- small for gestational age (SGA)
- uterine rupture
- uterine incarceration
Obstetrics organizations[edit]
- American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists
- American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- British Pregnancy Advisory Service
- British Society of Urogynaecologists
- European Society of Gynaecological Oncology
- FOGSI
- Gynecologic Oncology Group
- Ipas (organization)
- Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Pakistan
- Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
- World Endometriosis Research Foundation
Obstetrics publications[edit]
- Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
- African Journal of Reproductive Health
- American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Climacteric (journal)
- The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care
- Gynecological Endocrinology
- Human Fertility (Cambridge)
- Human Reproduction (journal)
- Hypertension in Pregnancy
- International Journal of Fertility
- Journal of Human Reproductive Sciences
- Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine
- Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Menopause (journal)
- Obstetrics & Gynecology (journal)
- Placenta (journal)
- Reproduction (journal)
- Reproductive Sciences
- Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine
- Women & Health
Persons influential in obstetrics[edit]
See also[edit]
- Gynecology
- embryo
- embryology
- gestation
- hormone
- identical twin
- In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)
- labor, labour - see childbirth
- lactation
- live birth
- menstrual cycle
- natural childbirth
- navel
- ovum or egg
- oxytocin or pitocin
- pediatrics
- sterilization
- twin
- umbilical cord
- umbilicus - see navel
References[edit]
External links[edit]
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Resources from Wikiversity
- Ingenious - Archive of historical images related to obstetrics, gynaecology, and contraception.
- World Congress on Controversies in Obstetrics, Gynecology & Infertility (COGI)
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- OBGYNHealth.net
- Seven Hills Women's Health Centers - Leaders in Women's Health with a helpful women's health library