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Gynecology & Obstetrics, Anesthesiology

Obstetric Anesthesia Handbook

by Sanjay Datta, Bhavani Shankar Kodali, Scott Segal
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Overview

This comprehensive book emphasizes the need for the anesthesiologist/obstetrician team approach to high-risk pregnancy care. The majority of chapters have contributions by experts in the two specialties.

The book contains black-and-white illustrations.

Synopsis

Thoroughly revised and updated, this new Third Edition is a practical handbook for administering safe and effective anesthesia to pregnant women. It provides an overview of maternal physiology, physiology of labor and delivery, and the pharmacology of obstetric anesthesia agents. Management guidelines for a variety of anesthetic procedures are presented. This book serves as a fine review for managing various problems, difficult deliveries, surgery during pregnancy, in vitro fertilization, caesarian delivery, and other challenges of obstetric anesthesia. The Practice Guidelines at the end of the book have been updated to reflect the latest guidelines from the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

Eveline Faure

This book describes the basic concepts of obstetricanesthesia. It is the second, updated edition of a valuablehandbook. It provides quick information about current concepts inobstetric anesthesia for residents and junior attendings. The book isvaluable for anyone involved with the care of the pregnant patient. The author has been a researcher and teacher in obstetric anesthesiafor more than 25 years. It contains excellent illustrations, withpertinent references. This handy soft-cover book fits in a coatpocket. This book is very useful to carry around for quickinformation. It serves students, interns, and residents. We willpurchase it for all our anesthesia residents.

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Eveline Faure

This book describes the basic concepts of obstetricanesthesia. It is the second, updated edition of a valuablehandbook. It provides quick information about current concepts inobstetric anesthesia for residents and junior attendings. The book isvaluable for anyone involved with the care of the pregnant patient. The author has been a researcher and teacher in obstetric anesthesiafor more than 25 years. It contains excellent illustrations, withpertinent references. This handy soft-cover book fits in a coatpocket. This book is very useful to carry around for quickinformation. It serves students, interns, and residents. We willpurchase it for all our anesthesia residents.

Booknews

Datta (anesthesia, Harvard Medical School), director of obstetric anesthesia at Brigham and Women's Hospital, advises on every aspect of childbirth-related anesthesia. Includes some 100 tables and illustrations, many new to this edition (no dates are given for previous ones), statistics on maternal morbidity and mortality by type of anesthesia, American Society of Anesthesiologists' guidelines, and a largely dismissive review of alternative relief of labor pain. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

From The Critics

Reviewer: Eveline Faure, MD(University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine)
Description: This book describes the basic concepts of obstetric anesthesia. It is the second, updated edition of a valuable handbook.
Purpose: It provides quick information about current concepts in obstetric anesthesia for residents and junior attendings.
Audience: The book is valuable for anyone involved with the care of the pregnant patient. The author has been a researcher and teacher in obstetric anesthesia for more than 25 years.
Features: It contains excellent illustrations, with pertinent references. This handy soft-cover book fits in a coat pocket.
Assessment: This book is very useful to carry around for quick information. It serves students, interns, and residents. We will purchase it for all our anesthesia residents.

5 Stars! from Doody

Book Details

Published
February 1, 2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Pages
477
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780387886015

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