Pregnancy and Childbirth presents the best evidence for the care of pregnant women to doctors, midwives, students and parents. The logical sequence of chapters and the index give quick access to the abstracts of over four hundred Cochrane systematic reviews. The book serves both as a stand-alone reference, and as a companion to locating full reviews on When in 1963 I began my residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and even earlier, in 1955 and 1956, when as a student I attended the shifts of the former Calixto Garc?a Hospital Maternity, the generations of gynecologists-obstetricians who preceded us and those Later studies were characterized by a teaching of Gynecology and Obstetrics that based its procedures on clinical analysis; that is, a careful and thoughtful history, followed by a thorough and systematic physical examination. Those were the times of a school of gentile maneuvers as the external version of the 38 weeks of gestation, when the fetus was in pelvic presentation, the diagnosis of the variety of position, Clinical follow-up of trial of labor is reflectedin the irreplaceable partograph. The author conceives the obstetrician as a clinician; able to identify and treat anomalies that may appear in pregnancy and childbirth, as well as medical illnesses associated with it. The obstetrician must be virtuous, prudent and knowledgeable about maneuvers to achieve transvaginal delivery, and a skilled surgeon to operate the surgical emergencies of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium. The good obstetrician is a self-sacrificing and hard-working professional, because childbirth care demands it. In recent decades, the medical world has been shaken by the appearance of continuous fetal monitoring, echosonography, Doppler, Computerized Axial Tomography (CAT), endoscopic examinations, etc., and an erroneous conviction was created that the electronic equipment would replace the meticulous clinical examination. Even in the United States of America, a leading country in the First World and convinced of these ephemeral premises, a comparative study of the certainty diagnosis was carried out in all medical disciplines, in the years
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