Textbook of Obstetric Anesthesia

This comprehensive reference, with editors and contributors from around the world, addresses all the issues pertinent to the practice of obstetric anaesthesia today. It not only provides the details of anaesthesia from labor and delivery, but it also contains in-depth coverage of operative anaesthesia, obstetric and anaesthetic complications and systemic disease during pregnancy.Chapters written by 82 international contributorsChapters include the most current information and references on obstetric anaesthesiaContains pertinent topics for today's practitioners such as the effects of physiology, pharmacology, and anatomy in obstetrics, analgesia for labour, operative anaesthesia, systemic disease in the pregnant patient, and related considerations.Features section on pregnant patient with systemic disease so the practitioner knows how to handle both the healthy patient and the special cases where the patient has a systemic diseaseProvides comprehensive coverage on anaesthetic and obstetric complications, a crucial factor in practising both anaesthesiology and obstetrics. Read more