Full Description
This book provides a comprehensive overview of critical care obstetrics. The text reviews different diseases and complications that can cause a pregnant patient to go into critical condition, while outlining treatment and management strategies for effective patient care. Critical scenarios covered include obstetric hemorrhage, pulmonary edema in preeclampsia, cardiac arrest, septic shock, abdominal hypertension, uterine rupture, and acute renal failure.
Written by experts in the field, Obstetric Catastrophes: A Clinical Guide is a valuable resource for critical care intensivists, obstetricians, and any practitioners involved in the treatment and management of the obstetric patient in critical condition.
Contents
Critical Care in the Obstetric Patient.- Hemodynamic Monitoring in Pregnancy and Puerperium.- Eclampsia.- Hellp Syndrome.- Acute Fatty Liver in Pregnancy.- Liver Failure and Hepatic Encephalopathy in Pregnancy.- Liver Hematoma and Hepatic Rupture.- Pregnancy associated Thrombotic thrombocytopenic and Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome.- Hypermesis Gravidarum.- Diabetes Ketoacidosis.- Hypoglycemia in Pregnancy.- Thyroid Emergencies during Pregnancy.- Ovarian Hyperstimulation: Pathophsyiology, Risk Factors.- Iatrogenic Multiple Pregnancy.- Procedures in the Critically Ill Pregnant Women.- ECMO during prenancy.- Nutrition in the Critically Ill Obstetric Patients.- Blunt Trauma.- Adynamic Ileus: Intraabdominal Hypertension Syndrome.- Burn Management in Pregnancy.- Drowning and Near-Drowning Management during Pregnancy.- Acute Spinal Cord Compression in Pregnancy.- Envenomations: Snake Bites and Scorpion Stings.- Pregnant patient with acute respiratory failure due to thromboembolic disease.- SevereAcute Asthma.- Anaphylaxis During Pregnancy.- Sepsis And Septic Shock In Pregnant Patient.- Chorioamnioitis.- Pneumonia During Pregnancy.- Tetanus in the Pregnant Woman.- Malaria in the Pregnant Women.- Dengue in Pregnant Women.- Ricketsiosis in Pregnant Women.- Acute coronary syndromes in pregnancy.- Aortic Disection in Pregnancy.- Cardiac Tamponade.- Cardiac Arrest in Pregnancy.- Pregnancy Related Infective Endocarditis.- Seizures in Pregnancy.- Neurogenic Shock in Pregnant Women.- Prolonged Somatic Support in the Brain During Pregnancy and Perinatal Period: Medico-legal and Bio-ethcial Aspects.- Oliguria.- Acute Kidney Injury During Pregnancy.- Hematological Emergencies.- Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura.- Bleeding during Pregnancy.- Cancer in Obstetrics.- Superior Vena Cava Syndrome in Pregnant Woman.
