Analgesia, Anaesthesia and Pregnancy

Steve Yentis is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College, London. Anne May is a Consultant Obstetric Anaesthetist at Leicester Royal Infirmary NHS Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Leicester. Surbhi Malhotra is a Clinical Fellow in Obstetric Anaesthesia at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London.

1. Assisted conception; 2. Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome; 3. Anaesthesia before conception or confirmation of pregnancy; 4. Cervical suture (cerclage); 5. Ectopic pregnancy; 6. Evacuation of retained products of conception; 7. Incidental surgery in the pregnant patient; 8. Intrauterine surgery; 9. Termination of pregnancy; 10. Anatomy of the spine and peripheral nerves; 11. Physiology of pregnancy; 12. Aortocaval compression; 13. Normal labour; 14. Gastric function and feeding in labour; 15. Drugs and pregnancy; 16. Placental transfer of drugs; 17. Prescription and administration of drugs by midwives; 18. Local anaesthetics; 19. Antenatal fetal monitoring; 20. Charting of labour; 21. Intrapartum fetal monitoring; 22. Pain of labour; 23. Epidural analgesia for labour; 24. Epidural test doses; 25. Combined spinal-epidural analgesia and anaesthesia; 26. Spinal analgesia; 27. Caudal analgesia; 28. Spinal and epidural opioids; 29. Inhalational analgesic drugs; 30. Systemic analgesic drugs; 31. Non-pharmacological analgesia; 32. Instrumental delivery; 33. Caesarian section; 34. Epidural anaesthesia for Caesarian section; 35. Spinal anaesthesia for Caesarean section; 36. General anaesthesia for Caesarean section; 37. Cricoid pressure; 38. Failed and difficult intubation; 39. Awake intubation; 40. Post-Caesarean section analgesia; 41. Removal of retained placenta; 42. Bloody tap; 43. Dural puncture; 44. Postdural puncture headache; 45. Epidural blood patch; 46. Extensive regional blocks; 47. Inadequate regional analgesia in labour; 48. Backache; 49. Horner's syndrome and cranial nerve palsy; 50. Peripheral nerve lesions following regional anaesthesia; 51. Spinal cord lesions following regional anaesthesia; 52. Arachnoiditis; 53. Cauda equina syndrome; 54. Opioid-induced pruritus; 55. Shivering; 56. Aspiration of gastric contents; 57. Awareness; 58. Air embolism; 59. Induction and augmentation of labour; 60. Oxytocic and tocolytic drugs; 61. Premature labour, delivery and rupture of membranes; 62. Malpresentations and malpositions; 63. External cephalic version; 64. Multiple pregnancy; 65. Trial of scar; 66. Under-age pregnancy and advanced maternal age; 67. Placenta praevia; 68. Placental abruption; 69. Prolapsed cord; 70. Fetal distress; 71. Intrauterine death; 72. Uterine inversion; 73. Major obstetric haemorrhage; 74. Postpartum haemorrhage; 75. Collapse on labour ward; 76. Maternal cardiopulmonary resuscitation; 77. Amniotic fluid embolism; 78. Cholestasis of pregnancy (obstetric cholestasis); 79. Acute fatty liver of pregnancy; 80. HELLP syndrome; 81. Hypertension, pre-eclampsia and eclampsia; 82. Magnesium sulphate; 83. Hyperemesis gravidarum; 84. Maternal mortality; 85. Allergic reactions; 86. Cardiovascular disease; 87. Arrhythmias; 88. Pulmonary oedema; 89. Cardiomyopathy; 90. Coarctation of the aorta; 91. Prosthetic heart valves; 92. Congenital heart disease; 93. Pulmonary hypertension and Eisenmenger's syndrome; 94. Ischemic heart disease; 95. Endocrine disease; 96. Diabetes mellitus; 97. Anaemia and polycythaemia; 98. Deep-vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism; 99. Thrombophilia; 100. Coagulopathy; 101. Von Willebrand's disease and haemophilia; 102. Disseminated intravascular coagulation; 103. Thrombocytopenia; 104. Lymphoma and leukaemia; 105. Haemoglobinopathies; 106. Rheumatoid arthritis; 107. Cervical spine disorders; 108. Kyphoscoliosis; 109. Low back pain; 110. Neurological disease; 111. Meningitis; 112. Acute post-infective peripheral neuropathy (Guillain-Barré syndrome); 113. Past history of neurological trauma; 114. Benign intracranial hypertension; 115. Intracranial tumour; 116. Cerebrovascular accident; 117. Epilepsy; 118. Migraine; 119. Multiple sclerosis; 120. Myasthenia gravis; 121. Spina bifida; 122. Convulsions; 123. Respiratory disease; 124. Asthma; 125. Cystic fibrosis; 126. Pulmonary fibrosi