Main description:

-- Useful reference covering all aspects of obstetric anesthesia
-- Written in table and list format for quick access to information
-- Includes handy chapter on important Spanish phrases needed when dealing with obstetric patients

This portable guide to obstetric anesthesia practice includes many drug lists, flow charts, and tables for quick reference. Designed for anesthesiologists who do not usually encounter obstetric patients, this book includes chapters on complicated births, premature births, and obstetric emergencies.

Contents:

Labour pain relief - central neuroaxial techniques; labour pain relief - other techniques; C/S anaesthesia; post-operative pain relief; circlage; post-partum tubals; non-OB surgery in the pregnant patient; complicated births; premature births; obstetric haemorrhage; obstetric emergencies; post dural puncture headache; pregnancy-induced hypertension; obesity; other conditions; foetal monitoring; neonatal resuscitation/care; physiologic changes of pregnancy; drugs in obstetrics; ACOG/ASA opinions/guidelines.