Outline of obstetrics

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?

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

• Childbirth and obstetrics in antiquity

Obstetrical History

• Gravidity
• Parity
• Gravida/para/abortus
• TPAL

Pregnancy and childbirth

• Pregnancy
• Childbirth

Complications of pregnancy and childbirth

• 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
  • 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

• 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

• 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

• Edward Kowalski

See also

• 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

External links

• 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