"• Go-to book for fetal/maternal medicine and labour • Material grouped into specific sections • Latest guidelines, recommendations and evidence • Support of illustrations, flowcharts and figures • Reference lists for interested readers • Foundations of basic concepts and their explanations • Boxes for salient features • Majority of chapters end with important points • Identification of knowledge gaps and suggested research agenda • Special chapter devoted to audit and clinical governance, maternal collapse • A must-have book for students and practitioners alike This book features the current best evidence in the field of high-risk pregnancy and delivery. The authorship constitutes some of the world’s best authorities in their field. Look no further if you want to remain up to date with the newest developments. Great care has been taken to make sure that no important details are missing, at the same time we have tried to simplify the basic concepts underpinning the science of Obstetrics. The idea was to develop thinking clinicians rather than blind followers of traditional teaching handed down by their seniors. Recommendations are based on evidence and world consensus. This book will be useful for all practitioners of the art of Obstetrics. These include practicing clinicians, postgraduate students of obstetrics, neonatology, genetics as well as interested undergraduate medical students. We are confident that reading this book will result in more good than harm to our patients and their babies."