Full Description
This volume comprises the edited presentations of the 40th Annual Postgraduate Course in Anaesthesiology, February 1995. It reflects recent advances in this area. Obstetrical and paediatric patients constitute important and often challenging cases for the practicing anesthesiologist. This textbook is the 13th in a continuing series documenting the proceedings of the Postgraduate Course of the Department of Anesthesiology of the University of Utah School of Medicine.
Contents
Physiology Adaptation during Pregnancy; G.W. Ostheimer. Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy; S.L. Clark. Anaesthesia for Severe Preeclampsia; C.P. Gibbs. Effects of Pregnancy on Local Anaesthetic Action and Toxicity; M. Finster. Obstetric Emergencies; C.P. Gibbs. Anaesthesia for Surgery in the Pregnant Surgical Patient; A.M. Malinov, J.W. Ostheimer (ed.). Foetal Considerations in the Critically Ill Obstetric Patient; J.P. Phelan, S.L. Clark (ed.). Does Epidural Analgesia Prolong Labour and Increase the Incidence of Instrumental or Operative Delivery? M. Finster. Anaesthesia for the Inner-City Parturient; D.J. Birnbach. Aspiration: Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment; C.P. Gibbs. Combined Spinal/Epidural Anaesthesia (CSE) for Labour and Delivery; D.J. Birnbach. Resuscitation of the Newborn; G.W. Ostheimer. Neonatal Physiology of Importance to the Anaesthesiologist; F.A. Berry. Anaesthesia for the Neonate: Emergent and Non-Emergent; J.M. Badgwell. Fasting and Premedication in Infants and Children; J. Lerman. Anaesthesia for the Ex-Premature Infant; J.M. Badgwell. Management of the Difficult Paedriatric Airway; F.A. Berry. Muscle Relaxants in Infants and Children; D.R. Cook. New Inhalational Anaesthetics in Infants and Children; J. Lerman. Stress Response in Paediatric Anaesthesia; P.R. Hickey. Perioperative Fluid and Blood Volume Management in Infants and Children; D.R. Cook. Regional Anaesthesia in the Paediatric Patient; L.J. Rice. Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting in Children; J. Lerman. An Update on Malignant Hyperthermia and Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy; F.A. Berry. Paediatric Outpatient Anaesthesia; R.S. Hannallah. Anaesthetic Considerations in Congenital Heart Disease; P.R. Hickey. Ketamine: From "Star Wars" to Dinosaur in 25 Years? L.J. Rice. Current Status of Intravenous Anaesthesia in Children; R.S. Hannallah. Postoperative Pain Management in the Paediatric Patient; L.J. Rice.
