Handbook of Obstetric Anesthesia

A portable, user-friendly distillation of Dr. Norris' best-selling text, "Obstetric Anesthesia, Second Edition", this handbook provides practical guidance on all aspects of obstetric anesthesia. Lists, tables, and illustrations are used extensively to highlight key clinical points.

Physiologic adaptation to pregnancy; pregnancy and coexisting maternal disease; pathophysiology and obstetric management of preeclampsia; diabetes in pregnancy; perinatal physiology and pharmacology; foetal evaluation; antenatal diagnosis and management of foetal complications; anaesthesia for surgery during pregnancy; obstetric management of labour; mechanisms of labour pain; alternative methods of labour analgesia; identifying the epidural space; spinal analgesia for labour; epidural analgesia for labour; analgesia and the progress and outcome of labour; general anaesthesia, epidural anaesthesia and spinal anaesthesia for cesarean delivery; anaesthesia and coexisting maternal disease; anaesthesia and substance abuse; anaesthesia and preeclampsia/eclampsia; vaginal birth after cesarean delivery; intraamniotic infection; obstetric haemorrhage; amniotic fluid embolism; anaesthetic complications; the stressed/distressed foetus; the premature foetus; foetal malpresentation and multiple birth; anaesthesia for postpartum sterilization; postoperative analgesia; anaesthetic complications; legal and ethical issues in obstetric anaesthesia.

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