Hypertension of Pregnancy
TOPICS 1. Preeclampsia 2. Anesthesia for Labor and Delivery 3. Summary Hypertensive disorders seriously complicate approximately 2% to 8% of all pregnancies.1 Indeed, 19% of pregnancy-related maternal mortality is due…
ANESTHESIA
Anesthesia for Surgery During Pregnancy
TOPICS 1. Introduction 2. Physiologic Changes of Pregnancy 3. Fetal Considerations 4. General Recommendations for Anesthetic Management INTRODUCTION The incidence of surgery during pregnancy is between 0.3% and 2.0%.1,2 There…
Anesthesia for Preterm Labor, Multiple Gestations, and Abnormal Presentations
TOPICS 1. Preterm Labor 2. Multiple Gestation 3. Abnormal Presentation PRETERM LABOR Introduction Prematurity is a serious cause of adverse perinatal outcome. It is a contributing factor in 75% of…
Anesthesia for Obstetric Procedures not Involving Delivery
TOPICS 1. Introduction 2. Postpartum Tubal Ligation 3. Cervical Cerclage 4. Dilation and Curettage or Evacuation 5. External Cephalic Version 6. Percutaneous Umbilical Blood Sampling INTRODUCTION Clinical obstetric anesthesia is…
Substance Abuse and the Human immunodeficiency virus
TOPICS 1. Introduction 2. Cocaine 3. Amphetamines 4. Ethanol 5. Opioids 6. Marijuana 7. Human Immunodeficiency Virus 8. Summary INTRODUCTION The prevalence of substance abuse in women of reproductive age…
Anesthetic Management of Diabetes During Pregnancy
TOPICS 1. Epidemiology and Etiology of Diabetes 2. Pathophysiology and Risk Factors for Diabetes in Pregnancy 3. Acute Maternal Complications of Diabetes 4. Nonacute and Long-Term Maternal Complications of Diabetes…
Managing Cardiac Comorbidities During Pregnancy
TOPICS 1. Valvular Disease 2. Congenital Heart Disease 3. Cardiomyopathy 4. Pulmonary Hypertension 5. Summary With advances in medical and obstetric care, more and more women with cardiac disease are…
Anesthetic Complications Due to Airway Management/Aspiration
TOPICS 1. Introduction 2. Upper Airway and Respiratory Mechanics 3. Neuraxial Analgesia and Anesthesia as Prophylaxis 4. The Unanticipated Difficult Airway 5. Extubation of a Known Difficult Airway 6. Pulmonary…
Non-neuraxial Labor Analgesia
TOPICS 1. Nonpharmacologic Labor Analgesia 2. Pharmacologic Labor Analgesia Labor is different for every woman, and the methods chosen for pain relief will depend on the obstetric/medical condition, the techniques…
