Description
Comprehensive, user-friendly, and up to date, Chestnut's Obstetric Anesthesia: Principles and Practice, 6th Edition, provides the authoritative clinical information you need to provide optimal care to your patients. This substantially revised edition keeps you current on everything from basic science to anesthesia techniques to complications, including coverage of new research that is paving the way for improved patient outcomes. An expert editorial team ensures that this edition remains a must-have resource for obstetric anesthesiologists and obstetricians, nurse anesthetists and anesthesiology assistants, and anesthesiology and obstetric residents and students.- Presents the latest information on anesthesia techniques for labor and delivery and medical disorders that occur during pregnancy, emphasizing the treatment of the fetus and the mother as separate patients with distinct needs.- Contains new chapters on shared decision-making in obstetric anesthesia and chronic pain during and after pregnancy.- Features extensive revisions from cover to cover, including consolidated information on maternal infection and postoperative analgesia.- Covers key topics such as neonatal assessment and resuscitation, pharmacology during pregnancy and lactation, use of nitrous oxide for labor analgesia, programmed intermittent epidural bolus (PIEB) technique, epidural analgesia-associated fever, the role of gastric ultrasonography to assess the risk of aspiration, sugammadex in obstetric anesthesia, the role of video laryngoscopy and new supraglottic airway devices, spinal dysraphism, and cardiac arrest in obstetric patients.- Incorporates the latest guidelines on congenital heart disease and the management of sepsis, as well as difficult airway guidelines that are specific to obstetric anesthesia practice.- Offers abundant figures, tables, and boxes that illustrate the step-by-step management of a full range of clinical scenarios.- Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
Table of Contents
Chestnut et al: Chestnut's Obstetric Anesthesia: Principles and Practice 6/ePart I: Introduction1. The History of Obstetric AnesthesiaPart II: Maternal and Fetal Physiology2. Physiologic Changes of Pregnancy3. Uteroplacental Blood Flow4. The Placenta: Anatomy, Physiology, and Transfer of Drugs5. Fetal PhysiologyPart III: Fetal and Neonatal Assessment and Therapy6. Antepartum Fetal Assessment and Therapy7. Anesthesia for Fetal Surgery and Other Intrauterine Procedures8. Intrapartum Fetal Assessment and Therapy9. Neonatal Assessment and Resuscitation10. Fetal and Neonatal Neurologic InjuryPart IV: Foundations in Obstetric Anesthesia11. Patient Safety and Team Training12. Spinal, Epidural, and Caudal Anesthesia: Anatomy, Physiology, and Technique13. Local Anesthetics and OpioidsPart V: Anesthesia Before and During Pregnancy14. Pharmacology and Nonanesthetic Drugs During Pregnancy and Lactation15. In Vitro Fertilization and Other Assisted Reproductive Technology16. Problems of Early Pregnancy17. Nonobstetric Surgery during PregnancyPart VI: Labor and Vaginal Delivery18. Obstetric Management of Labor and Vaginal Delivery19. Trial of Labor and Vaginal Birth after Cesarean Delivery20. The Pain of Childbirth and its Effect on the Mother and the Fetus21. Childbirth Preparation and Nonpharmacologic Analgesia22. Systemic Analgesia: Parenteral and Inhalational Agents23. Epidural and Spinal Analgesia/ Anesthesia for Labor and Vaginal Delivery24. Alternative Regional Analgesic Techniques for Labor and Vaginal Delivery25. Postpartum Tubal SterilizationPart VII: Cesarean Delivery26. Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery27. Postoperative AnalgesiaPart VIII: Anesthetic Complications28. Aspiration: Risk, Prophylaxis, and Treatment29. The Difficult Airway: Risk, Assessment, Prophylaxis, and Management30. Postpartum Headache31. Neurologic Complications of Pregnancy and Neuraxial Anesthesia32. Shared Decision-Making in Obstetric AnesthesiaPart IX: Obstetric Complications33. Preterm Labor and Delivery34. Abnormal Presentation and Multiple Gestation35. Hypertensive Disorders36. Infection37. Antepartum and Postpartum Hemorrhage38. Embolic Disorders39. Maternal MortalityPart X: The Parturient with Systemic Disease40. Autoimmune Disorders41. Cardiovascular Disease42. Chronic Pain During and After Pregnancy43. Endocrine Disorders44. Hematologic and Coagulation Disorders45. Liver Disease46. Malignant Hyperthermia47. Musculoskeletal Disorders48. Neurologic and Neuromuscular Disease49. Obesity50. Psychiatric Disorders51. Renal Disease52. Respiratory Disease53. Substance Abuse54. Trauma and Critical CareAppendicesAppendix A: American Society of Anesthesiologist Guidelines for Neuraxial Anesthesia in ObstetricsAppendix B: Practice Guidelines for Obstetric Anesthesia: An updated report by The American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Obstetric Anesthesia and the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and PerinatologyAppendix C: Optimal Goals for Anesthesia Care in ObstetricsAppendix D: Information Technology Resources for Obstetric Anesthesia Providers
