Full Description
This second volume in the World Clinics: Anesthesia, Critical Care & Pain: Analgesia and Anaesthesia in Labor and Delivery series presents an evidence-based review of the topic with a focus on providing an updated understanding of the subject.
The book is divided into twelve chapters, the first of which is on the history of labour analgesia. This initial chapter provides insights into improvements that have taken place in the management anaesthesia during labour and delivery. The articles on initiation and maintenance of labour analgesia provide essential updates, describing the safest and most effective forms of analgesia being practised currently.
Intrapartum foetal monitoring, an important aspect of management of labour, has been dealt with in detail, and sections on troubleshooting and complications and management of labour analgesia provide useful information for the practising anaesthesiologist. This comprehensive update on anaesthesia and analgesia in labour and delivery, written by experts in the field, is an essential resource for students, interns and physicians.
Key points
Part of World Clinics: Anesthesia, Critical Care & Pain series
Evidence-based reviews of obstetrical analgesia and anaesthesia
Contributions from specialists in the USA, Europe and Asia
Full colour images throughout
Contents
History of Labour Analgesia
Minimum standards for providing Analgesia services
Ultrasound facilitated neuroaxial block in labour
Initiation of Labour Analgesia: Practical Issues
Maintainance of Labour Analgesia: Various Techniques
Intrapartum Fetal Monitoring
Troubleshooting: Make Labour Analgesia Work
Complications & Management of Labour Analgesia
Coagulation Issues and Labour Analgesia
Labor Analgesia: Myth and Reality
Medico-legal Aspects of Obstetric Anesthesia Practice
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Obstetrics
