Maternal critical care : a multidisciplinary approach / [edited by] Marc van de Velde, Helen Scholefield, Lauren A. Plante.

Language: English Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, c2013Description: 1 online resource (504 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781139088084Subject(s): Pregnancy -- Complications | Obstetrical emergenciesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 618.2028 Online resources: Full text available at Cambridge Online Library Click here to view
Contents:
General non-medical considerations -- The scope for maternal critical care: epidemiology -- Service organization: hospital and departmental -- Competency and personnel -- Planning for elective and emergency problems -- Midwifery and nursing issues in the intensive care setting -- Decisions related to the beginning and end of life -- Support of the family and staff -- Recovery from intensive care and the next pregnancy -- Maternal critical care in the developing world -- Physiological changes of pregnancy -- Management of coagulopathy -- Acute collapse and resuscitation -- But what about the fetus? -- Pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, and management of the patient after overdose -- Shock -- Brain death and somatic support -- Airway management -- Mechanical ventilation -- Sedation and pain management -- Nutrition -- Monitoring the critically ill gravida -- Imaging issues in maternal critical care -- Cardiovascular disease -- Respiratory disease -- Thromboembolism -- Neurological disease and neurological catastrophes -- Acute kidney injury in pregnancy and critical care emergencies -- Cancer -- Endocrine disorders -- Acute abdomen -- Sepsis -- Trauma -- Malaria, bites, and stings during pregnancy -- Pregnancy and liver disease -- Autoimmune disease in pregnancy -- Pre-eclampsia -- Acute fatty liver of pregnancy -- Peripartum cardiomyopathy -- Obstetric hemorrhage -- Anaphylactoid syndrome of pregnancy (amniotic fluid embolus) -- Maternal complications of fetal surgery.
Summary: "If you are an obstetrician whose patient has been admitted to ICU, you need to know how she is managed there. If you are an intensivist, you need to adapt to changes in physiology, alter techniques for the pregnant patient and keep the fetus from harm. This book addresses the challenges of managing critically ill obstetric patients by providing a truly multidisciplinary perspective. Almost every chapter is co-authored by both an intensivist/anesthesiologist and an obstetrician/maternal-fetal medicine expert to ensure that the clinical guidance reflects best practice in both specialties. Topics range from the purely medical to the organizational and the sociocultural, and each chapter is enhanced with color images, tables and algorithms. Written and edited by leading experts in anesthesiology, critical care medicine, maternal-fetal medicine, and obstetrics and gynecology, this is an important resource for anyone who deals with critically ill pregnant or postpartum patients"--Provided by publisher.
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General non-medical considerations --
The scope for maternal critical care: epidemiology --
Service organization: hospital and departmental --
Competency and personnel --
Planning for elective and emergency problems --
Midwifery and nursing issues in the intensive care setting --
Decisions related to the beginning and end of life --
Support of the family and staff --
Recovery from intensive care and the next pregnancy --
Maternal critical care in the developing world --
Physiological changes of pregnancy --
Management of coagulopathy --
Acute collapse and resuscitation --
But what about the fetus? --
Pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, and management of the patient after overdose --
Shock --
Brain death and somatic support --
Airway management --
Mechanical ventilation --
Sedation and pain management --
Nutrition --
Monitoring the critically ill gravida --
Imaging issues in maternal critical care --
Cardiovascular disease --
Respiratory disease --
Thromboembolism --
Neurological disease and neurological catastrophes --
Acute kidney injury in pregnancy and critical care emergencies --
Cancer --
Endocrine disorders --
Acute abdomen --
Sepsis --
Trauma --
Malaria, bites, and stings during pregnancy --
Pregnancy and liver disease --
Autoimmune disease in pregnancy --
Pre-eclampsia --
Acute fatty liver of pregnancy --
Peripartum cardiomyopathy --
Obstetric hemorrhage --
Anaphylactoid syndrome of pregnancy (amniotic fluid embolus) --
Maternal complications of fetal surgery.

"If you are an obstetrician whose patient has been admitted to ICU, you need to know how she is managed there. If you are an intensivist, you need to adapt to changes in physiology, alter techniques for the pregnant patient and keep the fetus from harm. This book addresses the challenges of managing critically ill obstetric patients by providing a truly multidisciplinary perspective. Almost every chapter is co-authored by both an intensivist/anesthesiologist and an obstetrician/maternal-fetal medicine expert to ensure that the clinical guidance reflects best practice in both specialties. Topics range from the purely medical to the organizational and the sociocultural, and each chapter is enhanced with color images, tables and algorithms. Written and edited by leading experts in anesthesiology, critical care medicine, maternal-fetal medicine, and obstetrics and gynecology, this is an important resource for anyone who deals with critically ill pregnant or postpartum patients"--Provided by publisher.

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