Springer Childbirth Trauma

Product Description This comprehensive and authoritative text takes an integrated approach to childbirth trauma, focusing on anal sphincter injuries and perineal morbidity, as well as other lower urinary tract dysfunctions secondary to childbirth. In recent years there has been an increasing emphasis on childbirth injury. Research based on clinical evaluation and anal ultrasound has improved our understanding of these significant childbirth related complications, their associated morbidity and their long-term sequelae. Despite extensive research interest, clinical focus and institutional national and international guidelines, outcomes are still not optimal and debates continue. Complete with full-color illustrations, Childbirth Trauma is a useful guide for clinicians and researchers in this field. Review “This original textbook tackled a very important public health problem and the authors must be congratulated for their didactic approach. Their work is exhausted and well-illustrated, and will be very useful for all practitioners involved in obstetrics, female urology, and pelvic floor rehabilitation.” (European Urology Today, Vol. 29 (4), August-September, 2017) From the Back Cover This book looks at evidence-based information on the anatomy and physiology of the female pelvis and pelvic organs. The authors bring together comprehensive topics ranging across the whole spectrum of childbirth trauma, to help the reader with the diagnosis, management and treatment of different types of traumas, including prognosis, prediction and prevention.   Childbirth Trauma is a useful resource for gynecologists, urologists, coloproctologists and physiotherapists, as well as all professionals who provide care for women in pregnancy and in labor and those who manage women with childbirth trauma About the Author Stergios K. Doumouchtsis PhD, MRCOG Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, RCOG accredited Subspecialist in Urogynaecology Honorary Senior Lecturer Lead Consultant for Childbirth Injury and Pelvic Health after Childbirth Services St George's Healthcare NHS Trust / St George's University of London, UK