Emergency and Critical Care in Obstetrics

Emergency and Critical Care in Obstetrics covers the management of a variety of emergency obstetric conditions. With essential information on the use of equipment and administering relevant therapies, this book is an ideal source of reference for obstetricians.

Divided into 24 chapters, the book begins with discussion on maternal health and mortality in emergency obstetric services, followed by the practicalities of setting up an intensive care unit and equipment, and the role of fluid and electrolytes in obstetrics. Further chapters cover a range of conditions and situations which require emergency and critical care, from severe pre-eclampsia to renal, cardiac, respiratory and surgical emergencies.

Two chapters cover anaesthesia and analgesia in obstetrics, and discussion on anticoagulation therapies follows the chapter on coagulation disorders and pregnancy. The book concludes with an insightful chapter on intensive care blood component transfusion.

58 images and illustrations enhance important information for obstetricians in this concise guide to emergency and critical care in obstetrics.

Key Points

• Concise guide to the management of emergency obstetric conditions
• Includes guidance on ICU set-up, anaesthesia, analgesia, therapies and foetal diagnostics
• 58 images and illustrations

1. Maternal Mortality in Emergency Obstetrics Services

2. Sudden Maternal Collapse

3. ICU Setup and Equipments

4. Fluid and Electrolytes in Obstetrics

5. Shock and Pregnancy

6. Sepsis in Obstetrics—An Indian Prospective

7. Severe Pre-eclampsia—Hypertensive Emergencies

8. Pre-eclampsia and Eclampsia

9. Obstetric Hemorrhage

10. Metabolic Disorders in Pregnancy

11. Renal Failure and Renal Transplant Patient and Pregnancy

12. Cardiac Emergencies

13. Respiratory Failure in Pregnancy

14. Obstetric Anaesthesia

15. Obstetric Analgesia

16. Surgical Emergencies in Obstetrics                                                                                       

17. Uterine Rupture

18. Peripartum Hysterectomy

19. Postpartum Hemorrhage

20. Fetus as a Patient—Diagnostics and Therapies

21. Trauma in Obstetrics

22. Coagulation Disorders and Pregnancy

23. Anticoagulation Therapy

24. Intensive Care-Blood Component Transfusion

Index

Narendra Malhotra MD FICOG FICMCH
Malhotra Nursing and Maternity Home (P) Ltd, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Randhir Puri MD
Materno Foetal Medicine Specialist, Malhotra Nursing and Maternity Home (P) Ltd, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India