Full Description
This book presents the updated management of acute and critically ill obstetric and gynecological patients. It describes patients' care with pregnancy-induced medical disorders, comorbidities, and gynecological (OBGY) conditions requiring acute and intensive care support therapy. This book will guide early diagnosis and speedy management of life-threatening conditions. Chapters provide a comprehensive and systemic approach in an easy-to-understand format. Along with diseases and comorbidities of pregnancy, acute illness and its management caused by in vitro fertilization (IVF) are focused on, and a dedicated chapter about COVID-19 infection in obstetric patients is provided.
Updates in Intensive Care of OBGY Patients will support intensivists, obstetricians, gynecologists, acute care physicians, and surgeons. Residents, fellows, specialists, and other junior medical staff working in intensive care units will also value this source. It will also help to broaden the understanding of nurses and paramedical staff in intensive care therapy.
Contents
1 Peripartum cardiomyopathy: An update.- 2 Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia of pregnancy: Facts and figures.- 3 Sepsis and septic shock in the peripartum period.- 4 Preeclampsia: updates in diagnosis and management - ICU perspective.- 5 Peripartum pulmonary embolism: From diagnosis to management.- 6 Peripartum Haemorrhage: Recent Updates in Management.- 7 Trauma in pregnancy requiring ICU care.- 8 Eclampsia: An update.- 9 Intensive care therapy requirement in the management of gynecological and obstetric patients.- 10 Anesthesia related complications in Obstetrics and Gynecology.- 11 Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome.- 12 Covid 19 infection in ObGyn patients requiring intensive care: An update.- 13 ECMO in peripartum period: lifesaving therapeutic intervention.- 14 Infections in obstetrics and gynecology: An intensive care perspective.- 15 Radiological Imaging in the Intensive Care Management of Obstetric Emergencies: Safety Considerations, Best Practices and Common Pathologies.
