From early conception until the postpartum period, anaesthetists are required to provide pregnant women with the highest standard of anaesthetic care and pain relief whilst negotiating challenges such as concurrent systemic disease, infertility, and obesity as well as practicing in accordance with new developments in fetal medicine surgery, pharmacology, and imaging. The Oxford Textbook of Obstetric Anaesthesia provides an up-to-date summary of the scientific basis, assessment for and provision of anaesthesia throughout pregnancy and labour.

This highly authoritative textbook is conceptually divided into nine sections, detailing maternal and fetal physiology, fetal and neonatal assessment and therapy, anaesthesia before and during pregnancy, labour and vaginal delivery, anaesthesia for caesarean delivery, anaesthetic and obstetric complications, as well as systemic disease. Individual chapters address topics such as simulation and ultrasound.

Authored by an international team of expert anaesthetists this textbook reflects current world-wide practice and guidelines. Designed for consultants and trainees in anaesthesia, the Oxford Textbook of Obstetric Anaesthesia is the definitive source of expert knowledge for anaesthetists in this subspecialty.

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Contents

Part 1 History of obstetric anaesthesia
Part 2 Maternal and fetal physiology
Part 3 Fetal and neonatal assessment and therapy
Part 4 Fertility treatment, anaesthesia for non-obstetric surgeryr and drugs in pregnancy and lactation
Part 5 Obstetric management of labour and labour analgesia
Part 6 Anaesthesia for caesarean delivery
Part 7 Anaesthetic complications
Part 8 Obstetric complications
Part 9 Systemic disease in pregnancy
Part 10 Recent advances in obstetric anaesthesia
Appendix 1: Guidelines
Appendix 2: Scores and scales