Successfully combining the comprehensive depth of a textbook and the user-friendly features o fa practical handbook, A Practical Approach to Obstetric Anesthesia, 2nd Edition, is a portable resource for both experienced and novice clinicians. Focusing on clinical issues in obstetric anesthesia, it uses an easy-to-follow outline format for quick reference, enhanced with numerous tables, figures, and photographs. The use of color in this edition highlights key information and improves readability for daily practice and study.

Key Features:

• Presents the most up-to-date information available in obstetric anesthesiology, including guidance on both routine and complicated patient care.
• Features new chapters on ultrasound and echocardiographic techniques, trauma, management of the opioid dependent parturient, and maternal morbidity and mortality.
• Covers pharmacology and physiology, antepartum considerations, labor and delivery, postpartum issues, and disease states in obstetric patients, including a chapter on obesity and pregnancy, as well as guidelines from national organizations.
• Provides Clinical Pearls throughout, as well as Key Points in each chapter and current references for further study.

Now with the print edition, enjoy the bundled interactive eBook edition, which can be downloaded to your tablet and smartphone or accessed online and includes features like:

• Complete content with enhanced navigation
• Powerful search tools and smart navigation cross-links that pull results from content in the book, your notes, and even the web
• Cross-linked pages, references, and more for easy navigation
• Highlighting tool for easier reference of key content throughout the text
• Ability to take and share notes with friends and colleagues
• Quick reference tabbing to save your favorite content for future use

Contents

Section I: Pharmacology and Physiology
1. Physiologic Changes of Pregnancy
Rachel M. Kacmar and Andrea J. Traynor
2. Uteroplacental Anatomy, Blood Flow, Respiratory Gas Exchange, Drug Transfer, and Teratogenicity
Curtis L. Baysinger and Barton Staat
3. Local Anesthetics and Toxicity
Jennifer Hofer and Barbara M. Scavone
4. Obstetric Medications
Ruchira Patel and Mrinalini Balki

Section II: Antepartum Considerations
5. Ethical and Legal Considerations
M. Joanne Douglas and William J. Sullivan
6. Non-Obstetric Surgery During Pregnancy
Joy L. Hawkins and Debnath Chattergee

Section III: Labor & Delivery
7. Fetal Assessment and Monitoring
David Gambling
8. Maternal Infection and Fever
Rebecca D. Minehart, William Camann, and Scott Segal
9. Non-Neuraxial Analgesic Techniques
Wint Mon, Roshan Fernando, and Geraldine O'Sullivan
10. Choice of Neuraxial Analgesia and Local Anesthetics
Dominique Moffitt and Arvind Palanisamy 
11. Ultrasound and Echocardiographic Techniques
Laurie A. Chalifoux and John T. Sullivan
12 Impact of Neuraxial Analgesia on Obstetric Outcomes
Christopher R. Cambic and Cynthia A. Wong 
13. Anesthetic Considerations for Women Receiving Cesarean Delivery
Robert R. Gaiser
14. Difficult Airway Management in the Pregnant Patient
Uma Munnur and Maya S. Suresh 
15. Anesthesia for Multiple Gestation and Breech Presentation
Carolyn F. Weiniger
16. Obstetric Emergencies
Michael Froelich and Brenda A. Bucklin
17. Newborn Resuscitation
Richard A. Month

Section IV: Postpartum Issues
18. Post-cesarean Analgesia
Richard N. Wissler
19. Management of Postdural Puncture Headache
David Wlody
20. Neurologic Deficits following Labor and Delivery
Mark I. Zakowski and Andrew Geller
21. Postpartum Tubal Ligation
Brenda A. Bucklin

Section V: Disease States
22. Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy
Yelena Spitzer and Yaakov Beilin 
23. Endocrine Disorders
Jessica Booth, Peter Pan, Janine Malcolm, and Erin J. Keely
24. Thrombophilias/Coagulopathies
James P.R. Brown and M. Joanne Douglas 
25. Cardiac Disease in the Obstetric Patient
Nathaen S. Weitzel and Bryan S. Ahlgren
26. Neurologic and Neuromuscular Disease
Tammy Y. Euliano and Mary A. Herman
27. Renal and Hepatic Disease in the Pregnant Patient
Quisqueya T. Palacios and M. Susan Mandell
28. Obstetric Anesthesia for Parturients with Respiratory Diseases
Suzanne K.W. Mankowitz and Stephanie R. Goodman
29. Obesity and Pregnancy
Brenda A. Bucklin and David R. Gambling
30. Trauma in the Obstetric Patient
Hen Y. Sela, Lior Drukker, and Sharon Einav
31. Management of the Opioid Dependent Parturient
Jessica L. Young, Ellen M. Lockhart, and Curtis L. Baysinger

Section VI: Maternal Safety
32. Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
Jill M. Mhyre
33. Guidelines from National Organizations: American Society of Anesthesiologists, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and American Academy of Pediatrics
Kathryn J. Zuspan