Full Description
Critical Heart Condition During Pregnancy, a volume in the Critical Care Obstetrics series, provides a novel reference to educate physicians, nurses, and all allied healthcare personnel caring for pregnant women with various health compromises specific to cardiac complications. The book's chapters reflect the growing scope of critical care obstetrics and the increasing importance and recognition of the hospital structure's field. All intensivists, regardless of primary discipline, must possess a core set of critical care skills that allow them to manage critically ill patients. The authors have gathered the best evidence-based material explicitly focused on cardiac scenarios.
This volume presents cardiac medical-surgical complications that any patient can present during and post-partem, such as Arrhythmias, Endocarditis, Cardiogenic Shock, heart failure, and more.
Contents
1. The cardio-obstetric team
2. Pregnancy induced heart physiological alteration
3. Critical heart condition during pregnancy
4. Anesthesia and analgesia for the critically ill obstetric patient with cardiac disease
5. Anticoagulation in pregnancy
6. Pregnancy and valvular heart disease
7. Adult congenital heart disease in pregnancy
8. Peripartum cardiomyopathy
9. Acute coronary syndrome during pregnancy
10. Pulmonary hypertension in pregnancy
11. Arrythmias in pregnancy and management
12. Endocarditis in pregnancy
13. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in pregnancy
14. Cardiac surgery and pregnancy
15. Heart failure in pregnancy
16. Cardiovascular medications in critically ill pregnant patients
17. Cardiogenic shock in pregnancy
18. Obstetric challenges in Marfan syndrome: Critical care perspectives
19. Critical heart conditions during pregnancy
20. AI plays a crucial role in the diagnosis and prognosis cardio pregnant women
