Datta's Obstetric Anesthesia Handbook

Sanjay Datta, MDFormer Professor of AnesthesiaBrigham and Women’s HospitalHarvard Medical SchoolBoston, MA, USABhavani Shankar Kodali, MBBS, MDChief of Obstetric AnesthesiologyUniversity of Maryland Medical CenterProfessor of AnesthesiologyUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore, MA, USAScott Segal, MD, MHCMThomas H. Irving ProfessorDepartment of AnesthesiologyAtrium Health Wake Forest BaptistWake Forest School of MedicineWinston-Salem NC 27157

• 1. Maternal Physiological Changes During Pregnancy, Labor, and the Postpartum Period.-2. Local Anesthetic Pharmacology.- 3. Perinatal Pharmacology.- 4. Drug Interactions and Obstetric Anesthesia.- 5. Uteroplacental Blood Flow.- 6. Pain of Labor and Delivery.- 7. Non-pharmacological Methods for Relief of Labor Pain.- 8. Relief of Labor Pain by Systemic Medications and Inhalational Agents.- 9. Relief of Labor Pain by Regional Analgesia/Anesthesia.- 10. Effects of Epidural Analgesia on Labor and the Infant.- 11. Fetal Monitoring.- 12. Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery.- 13. Neonatal Resuscitation.- 14. High-Risk Pregnancy: Maternal Comorbidity.- 15. High-Risk Pregnancy: Pregnancy-Related Problems.- 16. Non-delivery Obstetric Procedures.- 17. Anesthesia for Nonobstetric Surgery During Pregnancy.- 18. Assisted Reproductive Technology.- 19. Maternal Mortality and Morbidity.- 20. Covid-19 in Pregnancy.- Appendix A: Guidelines for Regional Anesthesia in Obstetrics.- Appendix B: PracticeGuidelines for Obstetric Anesthesia.- Appendix C: Optimal Goals for Anesthesia Care in Obstetrics.