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.
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<li>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.</li>
<li>Contains new chapters on shared decision-making in obstetric anesthesia and chronic pain during and after pregnancy.</li>
<li>Features extensive revisions from cover to cover, including consolidated information on maternal infection and postoperative analgesia.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>Offers abundant figures, tables, and boxes that illustrate the step-by-step management of a full range of clinical scenarios. </li>
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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.</li>
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Chestnut's Obstetric Anesthesia: Principles and Practice: Expert Consult - Online and Print

Medical Books

Chestnut MD, David H.

Ngan Kee MD, Warwick D

Beilin MD, Yaakov

Bateman MD MSc, Brian T.

Nathan MD*, Naveen

Wong MD, Cynthia A.

Tsen MD, Lawrence C

Mhyre MD, Jill M.

Medicine

Elsevier

From basic science to various anesthesia techniques to complications, the meticulously updated, fifth edition of Chestnut’s Obstetric Anesthesia: Principles and Practice, covers all you need to know about obstetric anesthesia. An editorial team of leading authorities presents the latest on anesthesia techniques for labor and delivery and medical disorders that occur during pregnancy. New chapters and rewritten versions of key chapters cover topics such as psychiatric disorders in the pregnant patient, neurologic disorders, and critical care of obstetric patients.With online access to the full text, it is an invaluable, comprehensive reference textbook for specialists in obstetric anesthesiology and obstetricians, as well as anesthesiology and obstetric residents. This book also serves as a clear, user-friendly guide for both anesthesiologists and obstetricians who are in clinical practice. "...a comprehensive and contemporary, modern reference text." Reviewed by British Journal of Anaesthesia, May 2015 "Chestnut and his 79 expert contributors have once again released a current guide to obstetric anesthesia that proves useful to both junior learners and subspecialty providers." Reviewed by Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Apr 2015
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<li>Emphasizes the treatment of the fetus and the mother as separate patients with distinct needs to ensure the application of modern principles of care. </li>
<li>Delivers contributions from many leaders in the fields of obstetric anesthesia and maternal-fetal medicine from all over the world. </li>
<li>Offers abundant figures, tables, and boxes that illustrate the step-by-step management of a full range of clinical scenarios. </li>
<li>Presents key point summaries in each chapter for quick, convenient reference.</li>
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<li>Stay current on the latest advancements and developments</li> with sweeping updates and new chapters on topics such as patient safety and team approach, transthoracic echocardiography and noninvasive measurement of cardiac output in obstetric patients, psychiatric disorders during pregnancy, neurologic injuries, and more.<li>Prevent and plan for potential complications associated with theadvancing age of pregnant women. An extensive, state-of-the art discussion of "critical care of obstetric patients" equips you to address any special considerations for this increasing segment. </li> <li>Know exactly how to proceed. An abundanceof tables and boxes illustrate the step-by-step management of a full range of clinical scenarios.</li> <li>Choose the best drugs available while adhering to the most recent guidelines for obstetric anesthesia.</li> </ul>Your purchase entitles you to access the web site until the next edition is published, or until the current edition is no longer offered for sale by Elsevier, whichever occurs first. If the next edition is published less than one year after your purchase, you will be entitled to online access for one year from your date of purchase. Elsevier reserves the right to offer a suitable replacement product (such as a downloadable or CD-ROM-based electronic version) should online access to the web site be discontinued.

Chestnut's Obstetric Anesthesia: Principles and Practice: Expert Consult - Online and Print (Chestnut, Chestnut's Obstetric Anesthesia: Principles and Practice)

Nursing

Saunders

Chestnut. Anestesia obstétrica. Principios y práctica

Mhyre MD, Jill

Wong MD MD, Cynthia A

Tsen MD MD, Lawrence C

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