Anesthesia and the Fetus
Anesthesia and the Fetus integrates into one volume the multidisciplinary components of: * fetal development * fetal pharmacology * assessments of fetal and neonatal outcome * anesthesia and analgesia during pregnancy * anesthesia and analgesia during labor * ethics and law Written by an internationally renowned group of clinicians and scientists, Anesthesia and the Fetus provides a contemporary guide and reference to the role of anesthesia, and the anesthesiologist, in protecting the mother and her unborn child during pregnancy.
424 Seiten
Hardcover
Erscheinungsdatum 11.01.2013
ISBN 9781444337075
Yehuda Ginosar, BSc, MBBS, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel Felicity Reynolds, MD, FRCA, FRCOG, one time St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK Stephen Halpern, MD, MSc, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Carl P. Weiner, MD, MBA, FACOG, University of Kansas, School of Medicine, Kansas City, USA
This book covers all aspects of anesthesia affecting the fetus throughout in utero life. The book comprises three sections looking at: 1) endpoints for fetal and neonatal outcomes, 2) anesthetic interventions that may affect these endpoint variables, and 3) confounding variables which may modify the effects of anesthesia and analgesia on outcomes.