This updated book is a practical guide to intrapartum ultrasonography to help practitioners improve labor and delivery, and to limit, where possible, complications.

Presenting the authors' experiences, the book summarizes the state of the art in normal and abnormal labor. It clearly documents the use of intrapartum ultrasonography to evaluate the first and second stages of labor and diagnose the occiput posterior and transverse positions. Each situation is analyzed with the help of numerous informative images and invaluable tips and tricks showing how fetal head engagement and progression can be documented objectively. The importance of ultrasound in obstetrics risk management is also addressed.

Explaining how intrapartum ultrasonography can be used to assess whether a safe natural delivery is likely or whether operative procedures are required, the book is a valuable resource for all professionals - physicians and midwifes alike - caring for women in labor.

Traditional and sonographic pregnant uterus anatomy

Comparison between the traditional and ultrasonographic pelvimetry
New sonographic pelvimetric parameters of intrapartum ultrasonography and new literature review seven years later from the first edition
Intrapartum ultrasonography techniques developments:2D,3-4 D, colour and MRI applications
Intrapartum diagnosis of fatal head malposition and malrotations and fetal /neonatal and maternal outcomes in operative delivery ( caesarean section, vacuum extractor and forceps)
Neuraxial labor analgesia technique and management: intrapartum ultrasonography and maternal and a fetal outcomes
Ultrasonography in labor, delivery in pathological mother (myoma patients, obesity, metabolic syndrome, pericardiomyopaties peripartum)
New devices use in intrapartum ultrasonography state of the art
Intrapartum ultrasonography in low setting resources
Abnormal Invasive Placentation and ultrasonographic diagnosis and management
Normaland pathological puerperium early and late ultrasonographic diagnosis
New guidelines in intrapartum ultrasonography
Intrapartum ultrasonography and malpractice, liability, litigations, and claims
Intrapartum ultrasonography learning curve for obstetrics and midwife in Medical Simulation Centres official institutional courses (Simulation, Clinical Training & Simulation Instructors.