World Clinics: Anesthesia and Analgesia in Labour and Delivery-II, Vol. 2

This second volume in the World Clinics: Anesthesia, Critical Care & Pain: Analgesia and Anaesthesia in Labor and Delivery series presents an evidence-based review of the topic with a focus on providing an updated understanding of the subject.

The book is divided into twelve chapters, the first of which is on the history of labour analgesia. This initial chapter provides insights into improvements that have taken place in the management anaesthesia during labour and delivery. The articles on initiation and maintenance of labour analgesia provide essential updates, describing the safest and most effective forms of analgesia being practised currently.

Intrapartum foetal monitoring, an important aspect of management of labour, has been dealt with in detail, and sections on troubleshooting and complications and management of labour analgesia provide useful information for the practising anaesthesiologist. This comprehensive update on anaesthesia and analgesia in labour and delivery, written by experts in the field, is an essential resource for students, interns and physicians.

Key points

• Part of World Clinics: Anesthesia, Critical Care & Pain series
• Evidence-based reviews of obstetrical analgesia and anaesthesia
• Contributions from specialists in the USA, Europe and Asia
• Full colour images throughout

1. History of Labour Analgesia
2. Minimum standards for providing Analgesia services
3. Ultrasound facilitated neuroaxial block in labour
4. Initiation of Labour Analgesia: Practical Issues
5. Maintainance of Labour Analgesia: Various Techniques
6. Intrapartum Fetal Monitoring
7. Troubleshooting: Make Labour Analgesia Work
8. Complications & Management of Labour Analgesia
9. Coagulation Issues and Labour Analgesia
10. Labor Analgesia: Myth and Reality
11. Medico-legal Aspects of Obstetric Anesthesia Practice
12. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Obstetrics

Dwarkadas K Baheti MD
Consultant Anaesthesiologist and Pain Physician, Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Ketan S Parikh MD, FFARCS
Anaesthesiologist, Bombay Hospital and Medical Research Center, Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Bhavani S Kodali MD
Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs, Anaesthesiology, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Department of Anaesthesiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA

Sunil T Pandya
Head, Department of Anaesthesia, Pain and Critical Care, Fernandez Hospital, Hyderabad, AP, India