Anesthetic and Obstetric Management of High-Risk Pregnancy / Edition 3

by Sanjay Datta

Overview

It has been enormously satisfying to prepare the third edition of Anesthetic and Obstetric Management of High-Risk Pregnancy because it fulfills the need for close communication between two specialties, anesthesiology and obstetrics. This relationship is necessary not only to take care of the sick parturient, but also to deliver a healthy baby. New developments in obstetrics and in obstetric anesthesia necessitated this third edition. Most of the contributors to this edition are new, and they have provided information on the latest approaches, as well as updated information. In addition, Chapter 13, “Critical Care Anesthesia for High-Risk Parturients,” is completely new. Like earlier editions, the third edition includes contributions from an international team of experts in the field of obstetric anesthesia and obstetrics. I thank all the authors for their va- able contributions. The authors have expressed their own opinions and recommendations, which do not necessarily reflect my own views. I also wish to thank Ms. Elizabeth Kiernan for her endless help in completing the new edition. I sincerely hope this edition will further reinforce the concept of the team approach for taking care of the high-risk parturient.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387004433
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	01/09/2004
Edition description:	3rd ed. 2004
Pages:	555
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.98(h) x 0.05(d)

About the Author

Datta, Sanjay, MD, FFARCS (Harvard Univ)

The contributors represent the specialties of obstetric anesthesiology, obstetrics and gynecology, anesthesia, and maternal-fetal medicine. Most are from academic medical centers in the U.S., with a few from Canada and Nova Scotia. Institutions prominently represented include Harvard, Temple, Baylor, Medical Coll of Pennsylvania, and Johns Hopkins.

Table of Contents

Prepartum and Intrapartum Fetal Monitoring.- Prenatal Diagnosis of Fetal Disorders.- Fetal Congenital Abnormalities.- Intrauterine Fetal Manipulation.- The Pregnant Teenager.- The Morbidly Obese Pregnant Woman.- Breech Presentation, Malpresentation, and Multiple Gestation.- Antepartum Hemorrhage.- Postpartum Hemorrhage.- Neurologic and Muscular Disease.- Respiratory Disease.- Cardiovascular Disease in Pregnancy.- Renal Disease.- Endocrine Disorders.- Orthopedic Problems and Maternal Trauma.- Malignant Hyperthermia.- Hemoglobin Bart’s Hydrops Fetalis Syndrome.- Autoimmune Disease.- Preeclampsia and Eclampsia.- Preterm Labor.- Postdate Pregnancy.- Hematologic Disease.- The Diabetic Parturient.- Emboli in Pregnancy.- The Anticoagulated Patient.- Infectious Disease.- Substance Abuse.- The Febrile Parturient.- Psychiatric Disease.- Hepatic Disease.- Fetal Distress.- Critical Care Anesthesia for High-Risk Parturients.- Intrauterine Fetal Death.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews of the third edition:

"This book vividly illustrates the need for partnership between obstetricians and anaesthetists in delivering care to high-risk women in labour. It is a good attempt at encouraging a multidisciplinary approach on the labour ward and serves as an informative source for both obstetricians and anaesthetists. It is a well-written book in its third edition. … I would recommend this book as part of a library collection and I think it would be a useful textbook for obstetric anaesthetists, maternal and fetal medicine specialists … ." (Manjiri M Khare, The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Vol. 8 (1), 2006)

From the Publisher

4 Stars! from Doody

This second edition follows five years after the firstedition and contains 32 chapters devoted to collaborative anestheticand obstetric management of pregnancies complicated by coexistingconditions and diseases. The goal of this second edition is toprovide updated information from more recent scientific studies, torevise data interpretation where appropriate, and to introduce two newtopics, psychiatric disease and hepatic disease during pregnancy. Byhaving nearly all chapters coauthored by both an anesthesiologist andan obstetrician, the interpretations of factual information arepresented in a logical, interactive, balanced approach that parallelsthe ideal clinical paradigm. This interdisciplinary approach is uniqueamong texts and includes useful analyses of information from bothclinical and basic science resources in the fields of anesthesiologyand obstetrics. Although not a basic, primary text for medicalstudents, this book is a valuable addition to the resources of anyresident, staff, or faculty member practicing clinical obstetrics orobstetric anesthesia. Where appropriate, basic anesthetic andobstetric techniques and basic pharmacologic and physiologic principlesare presented in brief review summary boxes, whereas the body of thetext focuses on more advanced, detailed knowledge and literaturereview. The editor is a world-renowned, authoritative expert inobstetric anesthesia and has done well to organize this wealth ofscientific information into an updated, meaningful, clinicaltext. Among approximately 600 pages of text are 223 illustrations,all black-and-white, with little use of shading or three-dimensionalappearance. Although the number of illustrations is appropriate andtheinformation presented is correct, their visual impact on the readercould be improved with professional graphic design. Each chaptercontains a robust list of useful, recent literature sources asreferences. For clinical obstetricians and obstetricanesthesiologists, this text represents a vital resource towardunderstanding the interdisciplinary management of parturients withcoexisting disease. It is an invaluable resource for the obstetricanesthesiologist's armamentarium of knowledge.

Bernard Wittels