Safer Motherhood Topic: Pregnancy and Childbirth

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Safer Motherhood:

Pregnancy and Childbirth

Textbooks

Expert and recently published textbooks fully available here FREE to read and/or download

A Textbook of Preconceptional Medicine and Management

Advances in Labor and Risk Management

A Comprehensive Textbook of Postpartum Hemorrhage

A Textbook of Gynecology for Less-Resourced Locations

The Global Library’s Comprehensive Textbook of Women’s Medicine - relevant chapters on topics related to Pregnancy and Childbirth

Videos

High quality educational films for medical professionals and also for Community Education. (Typical running times of 10–15 minutes.) Most of these films have been created by the charity
Medical Aid Films
with whom The Global Library of Women’s Medicine has a close relationship.
Read more or see www.medicalaidfilms.org

For Community Education

How to Plan Pregnancy

How Babies are Made

Importance of focused antenatal care

What a Pregnant Woman Needs to Eat

Warning Signs in Pregnancy

Steps to a clean delivery (cut cord using a new clean razor blade)

For Healthcare Professionals

How to Use the Ultrasound Probe

New!The Basic Steps of an Obstetric Ultrasound Examination

New!The Principles of Ultrasound Imaging

Administration of parenteral antibiotics

How to use the partograph

Manual removal of the placenta

Lecture

Lectures, principally for doctors, by leading specialists on topics of relevance to Safer Motherhood. (Typical running times of 20–30 minutes)

Saving Mothers' Lives

Review on Anemia in Pregnancy

Diagnostic Atlases

High quality guides to visual diagnosis that have been specially created for The Global Library of Women’s Medicine by world leaders in their respective fields

Atlas of Obstetric Ultrasound

Atlas of High Definition Endoscopy and Gynecology

An Atlas of Endometriosis

Skills Training Videos

Outstandingly clear and well-presented video sequences, with voice-over commentary, demonstrating important obstetric-related techniques. (Typical running time 4–5 minutes)