Practical Approach to Obstetric Anesthesia is a comprehensive, accessible guide to obstetric anesthesia, with the substance and depth of a textbook and the convenient, user-friendly features of a handbook.

Practical Approach to Obstetric Anesthesia focuses sharply on clinical issues and is written in outline format for quick reference, with numerous tables, figures, and photographs.

Contents

1. Physiologic Changes of Pregnancy
2. Uteroplacental Drug Transfer, Blood Flow, and Teratogenicity
3. Local Anesthetics and Toxicity
4. Obstetric Medications
5. Maternal Assessment
6. Informed Consent, Documentation, and Medicolegal Issues
7. Non-Obstetric Surgery During Pregnancy
8. Fetal Assessment and Monitoring
9. Maternal Infection and Fever
10. Non-Neuraxial Analgesic Techniques
11. Choice of Neuraxial Analgesia and Local Anesthetics
12. Impact of Epidural Analgesia on Outcome of Labor
13. Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery
14. Difficult Airway Management in the Pregnant Patient
15. Anesthesia for Multiple Gestation
16. Obstetric Emergencies
17. Amniotic Fluid Embolism
18. Newborn Resuscitation
19. Post Cesarean Analgesia
20. Management of Postdural Puncture Headache
21. Neurologic Deficits following Labor and Delivery
22. Postpartum Tubal Ligation
23. Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy
24. Endocrine Disorders
25. Thrombophilias/Coagulopathies
26. Cardiac Disease in the Obstetric Patient
27. Neurological and Neuromuscular Disease
28. Renal and Hepatic Disease in the Pregnant Patient
29. Obstetric Anesthesia for Parturients with Respiratory Diseases
30. Obesity and Pregnancy
31. Guidelines from National Organizations

Index

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