Fifth edition
edited by Michael Belfort
Critical Care Obstetrics provides expert clinical guidance throughout on how you can maximize the chances of your patient and her baby surviving trauma.
In this authoritative book, internationally recognized experts guide you through the most challenging situations you as an obstetrician are likely to face, enabling you to skillfully:
- Recognize conditions early-on which might prove life threatening
- Implement immediate life-saving treatments in emergency situations
- Maximize the survival prospects of both the mother and her fetus
The fifth edition of this book will help you keep your composure in high risk clinical situations, making it an invaluable resource for any healthcare professional responsible for the care and management of pregnant women and their unborn children.
Contents
- Epidemiology of Critical Illness in Pregnancy
- Organizing an Obstetric Critical Care Unit
- Critical Care Obstetric Nursing
- Pregnancy-Induced Physiologic Alterations
- Maternal–Fetal Blood Gas Physiology
- Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Pregnancy
- Neonatal Resuscitation
- Ventilator Management in Critical Illness
- Vascular Access
- Blood Component Replacement
- Hyperalimentation
- Dialysis
- Cardiopulmonary Bypass
- Non-Invasive Monitoring
- Pulmonary Artery Catheterization
- Seizures and Status Epilepticus
- Acute Spinal Cord Injury
- Pregnancy-Related Stroke
- Cardiac Disease
- Thromboembolic Disease
- Etiology and Management of Hemorrhage
- Severe Acute Asthma
- Acute Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) During Pregnancy
- Pulmonary Edema
- The Acute Abdomen During Pregnancy
- Acute Pancreatitis
- Acute Renal Failure
- Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy
- Sickle Cell Crisis
- Disseminated Intravascular Coagulopathy
- Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, Hemolytic–Uremic Syndrome, and HELLP
- Endocrine Emergencies
- Complications of Pre-eclampsia
- Anaphylactoid Syndrome of Pregnancy
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Antiphospholipid Syndrome
- Trauma in Pregnancy
- Thermal and Electrical Injury
- Overdose, Poisoning and Envenomation During Pregnancy
- Hypovolemic and Cardiac Shock
- Septic Shock
- Anaphylactic Shock in Pregnancy
- Fetal Considerations in the Critically Ill Gravida
- Fetal Effects of Drugs Commonly Used in Critical Care
- Anesthesia Considerations for the Critically Ill Parturient with Cardiac Disease
- The Organ Transplant Patient in the Obstetric Critical Care Setting
- Ethics in the Obstetric Critical Care Setting
- Acute Psychiatric Conditions in Pregnancy
- Fetal Surgery Procedures and Associated Maternal Complications
- Cancer in the Pregnant Patient
- Pregnancy in Women with Complicated Diabetes Mellitus
- Biological, Chemical, and Radiological Attacks in Pregnancy
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