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Obstetric Anesthesia Practice is a timely update in the field, providing a concise, evidence-based, and richly illustrated book for students, trainees, and practicing clinicians. The book comprehensively covers a robust list of topics focused to improve understanding in the field with emphasis on recent developments in clinical practices, technology, and procedures.
List of contents
- 1 Physiologic changes during pregnancy
- 2 The Placenta: Anatomy, Physiology, Uteroplacental Blood Flow, and Drug Transfer
- 3 Fetal Physiology and Antepartum Fetal Surveillance
- 4 Coexisting Disease and the Parturient Part One: Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Renal, Gastrointestinal
- 5 Coexisting Disease and the Parturient - Part 2
- 6 Parturient Anesthesia Assessment and Evaluation
- 7 The high-risk obstetric patient: pregnancy-induced conditions
- 8 Intrapartum Monitoring and Fetal Assessment
- 9 Obstetric management of labor and vaginal delivery
- 10 Pharmacology and Non-Anesthetic Drugs During Pregnancy and Lactation
- 11 Local anesthetics
- 12 Opioid analgesia
- 13 Neuraxial Anesthesia
- 14 Alternative regional anesthetic techniques: labor and vaginal delivery
- 15 Non-opioid analgesic techniques
- 16 Non-pharmacologic management of labor and delivery
- 17 Neuraxial Techniques and Medications for Cesarean Delivery
- 18 Airway management
- 19 General Anesthesia for Caesarian delivery
- 20 Antepartum and postpartum hemorrhage
- 21 Cesarean delivery: postoperative management
- 22 Neonatal assessment and resuscitation
- 23 Postpartum complications
- 24 Trauma and critical care during pregnancy
- 25 Non-obstetric surgery during pregnancy
- 26 Anesthesia for Fetal Surgery
- 27 Anesthesia for assisted reproductive techniques
- 28 Medicolegal issues
About the author
Alan D. Kaye, MD, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology at Louisiana State University in New Orleans.
Richard D. Urman, MD, MBA, is Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Director of the Center for Perioperative Research in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Summary
As the practice of obstetric anesthesia becomes increasingly recognized as a major subspecialty of anesthesia, there is a growing interest from current practitioners to evolve their neuraxial, regional, and general anesthesia techniques and understanding of the latest evidence. Obstetric Anesthesia Practice is a timely update in the field, providing a concise, evidence-based, and richly illustrated book for students, trainees, and practicing clinicians. Comprehensive in scope, this book addresses the essential topics necessary for the practitioner to quickly assess the patient and risk stratify them, decide on the type of analgesic and anesthetic plan most appropriate as well as its feasibility and safety, provide expert consultation to the other members of the obstetric team, manage anesthesia care and complications, and arrange for advanced care if needed.
