Handbook of Obstetric Anesthesia

Physiologic adaptation to pregnancy; pregnancy and coexisting maternal disease; pathophysiology and obstetric management of preeclampsia; diabetes in pregnancy; perinatal physiology and pharmacology; foetal evaluation; antenatal diagnosis and management of foetal complications; anaesthesia for surgery during pregnancy; obstetric management of labour; mechanisms of labour pain; alternative methods of labour analgesia; identifying the epidural space; spinal analgesia for labour; epidural analgesia for labour; analgesia and the progress and outcome of labour; general anaesthesia, epidural anaesthesia and spinal anaesthesia for cesarean delivery; anaesthesia and coexisting maternal disease; anaesthesia and substance abuse; anaesthesia and preeclampsia/eclampsia; vaginal birth after cesarean delivery; intraamniotic infection; obstetric haemorrhage; amniotic fluid embolism; anaesthetic complications; the stressed/distressed foetus; the premature foetus; foetal malpresentation and multiple birth; anaesthesia for postpartum sterilization; postoperative analgesia; anaesthetic complications; legal and ethical issues in obstetric anaesthesia.