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ISBN: 9780323848527
Copyright: 2020
Publication Date: 03-08-2021
Page Count: 1382
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Chestnut's Obstetric Anesthesia: Principles and Practice - Elsevier eBook on VitalSouce, 6th Edition

by David H. Chestnut, MD, Cynthia A. Wong, MD, Lawrence C. Tsen, MD, Warwick D Ngan Kee, MD, Yaakov Beilin, MD, Jill M. Mhyre, MD, Brian T. Bateman, MD, MSc and Naveen Nathan, MD*

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ISBN: 9780323848527
Copyright: 2020
Publication Date: 03-08-2021
Page Count: 1382
Imprint: Elsevier
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Comprehensive, user-friendly, and up to date, Chestnut's Obstetric Anesthesia: Principles and Practice, 6th Edition, provides the authoritative clinical information you need to provide optimal care to your patients. This substantially revised edition keeps you current on everything from basic science to anesthesia techniques to complications, including coverage of new research that is paving the way for improved patient outcomes. An expert editorial team ensures that this edition remains a must-have resource for obstetric anesthesiologists and obstetricians, nurse anesthetists and anesthesiology assistants, and anesthesiology and obstetric residents and students.

    • Presents the latest information on anesthesia techniques for labor and delivery and medical disorders that occur during pregnancy, emphasizing the treatment of the fetus and the mother as separate patients with distinct needs
    • Contains new chapters on shared decision-making in obstetric anesthesia and chronic pain during and after pregnancy
    • Features extensive revisions from cover to cover, including consolidated information on maternal infection and postoperative analgesia
    • Covers key topics such as neonatal assessment and resuscitation, pharmacology during pregnancy and lactation, use of nitrous oxide for labor analgesia, programmed intermittent epidural bolus (PIEB) technique, epidural analgesia-associated fever, the role of gastric ultrasonography to assess the risk of aspiration, sugammadex in obstetric anesthesia, the role of video laryngoscopy and new supraglottic airway devices, spinal dysraphism, and cardiac arrest in obstetric patients
    • Incorporates the latest guidelines on congenital heart disease and the management of sepsis, as well as difficult airway guidelines that are specific to obstetric anesthesia practice
    • Offers abundant figures, tables, and boxes that illustrate the step-by-step management of a full range of clinical scenarios

  • Part I: Introduction
    1. The History of Obstetric Anesthesia

    Part II: Maternal and Fetal Physiology
    2. Physiologic Changes of Pregnancy
    3. Uteroplacental Blood Flow
    4. The Placenta: Anatomy, Physiology, and Transfer of Drugs
    5. Fetal Physiology

    Part III: Fetal and Neonatal Assessment and Therapy
    6. Antepartum Fetal Assessment and Therapy
    7. Anesthesia for Fetal Surgery and Other Intrauterine Procedures
    8. Intrapartum Fetal Assessment and Therapy
    9. Neonatal Assessment and Resuscitation
    10. Fetal and Neonatal Neurologic Injury

    Part IV: Foundations in Obstetric Anesthesia
    11. Patient Safety and Team Training
    12. Spinal, Epidural, and Caudal Anesthesia: Anatomy, Physiology, and Technique
    13. Local Anesthetics and Opioids

    Part V: Anesthesia Before and During Pregnancy
    14. Pharmacology and Nonanesthetic Drugs During Pregnancy and Lactation
    15. In Vitro Fertilization and Other Assisted Reproductive Technology
    16. Problems of Early Pregnancy
    17. Nonobstetric Surgery during Pregnancy

    Part VI: Labor and Vaginal Delivery
    18. Obstetric Management of Labor and Vaginal Delivery
    19. Trial of Labor and Vaginal Birth after Cesarean Delivery
    20. The Pain of Childbirth and its Effect on the Mother and the Fetus
    21. Childbirth Preparation and Nonpharmacologic Analgesia
    22. Systemic Analgesia: Parenteral and Inhalational Agents
    23. Epidural and Spinal Analgesia/ Anesthesia for Labor and Vaginal Delivery
    24. Alternative Regional Analgesic Techniques for Labor and Vaginal Delivery
    25. Postpartum Tubal Sterilization

    Part VII: Cesarean Delivery
    26. Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery
    27. Postoperative Analgesia

    Part VIII: Anesthetic Complications
    28. Aspiration: Risk, Prophylaxis, and Treatment
    29. The Difficult Airway: Risk, Assessment, Prophylaxis, and Management
    30. Postpartum Headache
    31. Neurologic Complications of Pregnancy and Neuraxial Anesthesia
    32. Shared Decision-Making in Obstetric Anesthesia

    Part IX: Obstetric Complications
    33. Preterm Labor and Delivery
    34. Abnormal Presentation and Multiple Gestation
    35. Hypertensive Disorders
    36. Infection
    37. Antepartum and Postpartum Hemorrhage
    38. Embolic Disorders
    39. Maternal Mortality

    Part X: The Parturient with Systemic Disease
    40. Autoimmune Disorders
    41. Cardiovascular Disease
    42. Chronic Pain During and After Pregnancy
    43. Endocrine Disorders
    44. Hematologic and Coagulation Disorders
    45. Liver Disease
    46. Malignant Hyperthermia
    47. Musculoskeletal Disorders
    48. Neurologic and Neuromuscular Disease
    49. Obesity
    50. Psychiatric Disorders
    51. Renal Disease
    52. Respiratory Disease
    53. Substance Abuse
    54. Trauma and Critical Care

    Appendices
    A: American Society of Anesthesiologist Guidelines for Neuraxial Anesthesia in Obstetrics
    B: Practice Guidelines for Obstetric Anesthesia: An updated report by The American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Obstetric Anesthesia and the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology
    C: Optimal Goals for Anesthesia Care in Obstetrics
    D: Information Technology Resources for Obstetric Anesthesia Providers

  • David H. Chestnut, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, Cynthia A. Wong, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, USA, Lawrence C. Tsen, MD, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School; Director of Anesthesia, Center for Reproductive Medicine, Associate Director, Center for Professionalism and Peer Support Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts., USA, Warwick D Ngan Kee, MD, Director of Obstetric Anaesthesia, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Yaakov Beilin, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology and Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science, Vice Chair for Quality, Department of Anesthesiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA, Jill M. Mhyre, MD, The Dola S Thompson Professor, Director of Obstetric Anesthesia, Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA, Brian T. Bateman, MD, MSc, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School; Chief of Obstetric Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA and Naveen Nathan, MD*, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
    Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
    Northwestern Memorial Hospital
    Chicago, Illinois
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