Obstetrics
- Understand the basics behind pregnancy
- Understand the milestones of pregnancy and labour
- Pregnancy tests and investigations
- Understand common complications during pregnancy
- Labour complications and post-partum conditions
Overview
This module first covers the basics of pregnancy – including staging, development of the placenta, important dates and how labour works. We then go through the various tests and investigations that women undergo and the various screening programmes available during their antenatal scans. The last section then goes through the different conditions, from early pregnancy to labour and post-partum.
What's Covered
Section 1:
Background
- How to date a pregnancy
- Development of the placenta
- Maternal adaptations in pregnancy
- Lactation
- Stages of labour
- Key milestones in pregnancy
Section 2: Tests
and investigations
- Abdominal and transvaginal ultrasound
- Down's syndrome screening
- Fetal cardiotocography
- Chorionic villus sampling and amniocentesis
- Cell free foetal DNA
Section 3:
conditions
- 1st trimester conditions
- Pre-existing diseases in pregnancy
- Pregnancy infections
- Foetal lie problems
- Labour conditions
- Post-partum conditions
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