The paramount goal of Bedside Obstetrics and Gynecology by Richa Saxena is to provide clinical insight of obstetrics and gynecology to postgraduate medical students. To gain the skills, such as procuring and filtering the clinical and laboratory data, to develop a differential diagnosis and finally making a rational treatment plan, is best possible when the student learns at the bedside. Practitioners may also find this book helpful as it provides information on the latest guidelines of treating various gynaecological cases, WHO reference parameters for semen analysis, new nonsurgical therapeutic modalities for treatment of PPH, PALM-COEIN classification system for menorrhagia, revised updated guidelines for screening of cervical cancer, new contraceptive pills/devices, etc. This comprehensively updated second edition of the book provides a thorough and dynamically-illustrated overview of practice of evidence-based medicine, abreast with the technological advancements in the field of obstetrics and gynecology. It is clinically relevant, with a focus on diagnosing, managing and treating disorders and abnormalities. In order to intricately elaborate some important topics, such as abnormal pap smear, care during the antenatal period and pregnancy, separate chapters have been assigned in this edition New chapters, like preterm pregnancy, postdated pregnancy and intrauterine death, early pregnancy bleeding due to miscarriage, menopause, contraception, etc., have been included in this edition based on the feedback received from readers of the previous edition. This edition has an additional heading, “recent advances”, where recent advances have been briefly described on the lines of the available evidence, in most of the chapters. The details of the source of each research study have been described beneath to enable the reader to quench his thirst for learning.
