Full Description
Bleeding Disorders During Pregnancy is a volume in the Critical Care Obstetrics series. It is a novel reference to educate physicians, nurses, and all allied healthcare personnel caring for pregnant women with various health compromises that include bleeding. The authors have gathered the best evidence-based material explicitly focused on severe complications in pregnant patients and postpartum. Among the chapters, the book covers medical-surgical complications that any patient can present, such as obstetrics, hemorrhage, hypovolemic shock, and other bleeding complications specific to pregnancy.
Contents
Part 1 Introduction
1. Physiological hematologic changes in pregnancy
2. Obstetrics hemorrhage and hypovolemic shock
Part 2 First Trimester Bleeding
3. Abortion
Part 3 Ante and intrapartum hemorrhage
4. Placental pathologies
5. Uterine rupture
Part 4 Post-Partum Hemorrhage
6. Uterine atony
7. Placenta accreta
8. Uterine inversion
9. Retained products of conception
10. Hepatic rupture
Part 5 Medical and surgical approach
11. Blood component therapy and massive transfusion
12. Hemostatic monitoring in obstetrics hemorrhage
13. Drugs used in massive bleeding
Part 6 Less invasive approach
14. Surgical interventions in obstetrics bleeding (compression suture and vascular ligature)
15. Intrauterine devices in obstetric hemorrhage
Part 7 Invasive approach
16. Damage control surgery in the obstetric patient
17. Consumption and dilutional coagulopathy in critically ill obstetric patient
18. Endocrine consequences of hemorrhagic shock: Sheehan's syndrome
