Comprehensive, user-friendly, and up to date, Chestnut's Obstetric
Anesthesia: Principles and Practice, 6th Edition, provides the
authoritative clinical information you need to provide optimal care to
your patients. This substantially revised edition keeps you current on
everything from basic science to anesthesia techniques to complications,
including coverage of new research that is paving the way for improved
patient outcomes. An expert editorial team ensures that this edition
remains a must-have resource for obstetric anesthesiologists and
obstetricians, nurse anesthetists and anesthesiology assistants, and
anesthesiology and obstetric residents and students.
- Presents the latest information on anesthesia techniques for labor
and delivery and medical disorders that occur during pregnancy,
emphasizing the treatment of the fetus and the mother as separate
patients with distinct needs.
- Contains new chapters on shared decision-making in obstetric
anesthesia and chronic pain during and after pregnancy.
- Features extensive revisions from cover to cover, including
consolidated information on maternal infection and postoperative
analgesia.
- Covers key topics such as neonatal assessment and resuscitation,
pharmacology during pregnancy and lactation, use of nitrous oxide for
labor analgesia, programmed intermittent epidural bolus (PIEB)
technique, epidural analgesia-associated fever, the role of gastric
ultrasonography to assess the risk of aspiration, sugammadex in
obstetric anesthesia, the role of video laryngoscopy and new
supraglottic airway devices, spinal dysraphism, and cardiac arrest in
obstetric patients.
- Incorporates the latest guidelines on congenital heart disease and
the management of sepsis, as well as difficult airway guidelines that
are specific to obstetric anesthesia practice.
- Offers abundant figures, tables, and boxes that illustrate the
step-by-step management of a full range of clinical scenarios.
- Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook
allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the
book on a variety of devices.
