Manual on Operative Delivery

Nandita Palshetkar MD FCPS FICOG FRCOG (UK)Professor Emeritus, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, DY Patil School of Medicine, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; Founder and Medical Director of Bloom IVF GroupHrishikesh D Pai MD FRCOG (UK-HON) FCPS FICOG MSc (USA)Trustee, FIGO, Asia Oceania (2023-25), Professor, DY Patil University, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; Immediate Past President, FOGSI (2022-23); Founder and Medical Director, Bloom IVF Group, Mumbai, IndiaNiranjan Chavan MD FICOG FCPS DGO DFP MICOG DICOG Diploma in Endoscopy (USA)Professor and Unit Chief, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Lokmanya Tilak Medical College and General Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• 1. Introduction to Operative Deliveries2. Instrumental Vaginal Delivery: Forceps Delivery3. Instrumental Vaginal Delivery: Vacuum Extraction4. Instrumental Vaginal Delivery: Odon Device5. Cesarean Section: Indications and Decision-making6. Cesarean Section: Surgical Techniques and Variations7. Operative Delivery in Special Circumstances8. Operative Delivery in Abnormal Placentation: Placenta Accreta Syndrome and Placenta Previa9. Management of Abnormal Fetal Presentations10. Postoperative Care and Management of Complications in Operative Vaginal Birth11. Fetus: Effects of Operative Birth12. Ethical and Medicolegal Aspects of Operative Deliveries