Textbook of Obstetric Anaesthesia

by Edited by Rachel E. Collis , Felicity Plaat , John Urquhart

• ISBN13: 9781900151771
• ISBN10: 1900151774
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Greenwich Medical Media

Summary

The modern obstetric anaesthetist must not only provide safe and effective pain-relief in labour and anaesthesia for Caesarean section, but also understand the wider role of the anaesthetist in the management of the pregnant woman. Textbook of Obstetric Anaesthesia provides information on the breadth of obstetric anaesthesia and the role of the obstetric anaesthetist in the delivery suite. It provides useful, practical, evidence-based information on all aspects of labour ward management. Coverage of all subject areas is comprehensive, and a multidisciplinary group of expert contributors examine the key issues in normal labour and routine analgesia, routine fetal monitoring and basic interpretation of the CTG. Later chapters go on to cover in detail what happens, and how to manage patients, in difficult situations that extend beyond the routine.

Table of Contents

1. History of obstetric analgesia and anaesthesia

2. Maternal physiology

3. Audit in obstetric anaesthesia

4. Non-regional analgesia I (non pharmacological)

5. Non-regional analgesia II (pharmacological)

6. Regional analgesia for labour

7. Ambulatory analgesia in labour

8. Anaesthesia for caesarean section: general anaesthesia

9. Regional anaesthesia for caesarean section

10. Anaesthesia for the distressed fetus and major obstetric haemorrhage

11. Intrapartum fetal monitoring

12. The obstetric patient with cardiac disease

13. The obstetric patient with respiratory, neurological and endocrine disease

14. Pre-eclampsia

15. Intensive and high dependency care of the obstetric patient

16. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in pregnancy

17. Amniotic fluid embolism

18. Anaesthesia during pregnancy

19. Midwifery education and the anaesthetist.