Analgesia, Anaesthesia and Pregnancy: Pharmacology, Neuraxial Blockade, High-Risk Obstetric Anesthesia for the Resident Fellow

Two patients. One anesthetic. Very little time to think. Every other branch of anesthesia asks one question about the patient in front of you. Obstetric anesthesia asks it twice - and the two answers do not always point the same way. A vasopressor dose that restores maternal blood pressure may not restore uterine perfusion. A block that abolishes contraction pain may not leave enough motor function for the second stage. Nothing in the general operating room prepares you for holding both sets of priorities at once, under time pressure, in a room that moves faster than the anesthetic record. Analgesia, Anaesthesia and Pregnancy was written for the resident, fellow, and trainee anesthetist who has to make those calls in real time. Please note: this book is an educational text, not a substitute for clinical judgment, institutional protocol, or current prescribing information. All dosing figures are illustrative, all case vignettes are fictional composites, and every drug appears by generic name. Inside, you will learn to: - Interpret maternal physiologic adaptation and read a "normal" lab panel against pregnancy-specific ranges - Predict placental drug transfer, ion trapping, and fetal heart rate change from first principles - Site, maintain, troubleshoot, and convert neuraxial blockade - including recognizing the block that is going to fail before it does - Manage hemorrhage, hypertensive disease, difficult airway, and maternal collapse with the decisions that actually change outcomes >Every chapter opens by stating a belief widely held about its subject, then dismantles it against what the evidence actually shows - because a misconception named out loud is far easier to displace than one that has never been examined. This is not a reference volume you consult and reshelve, and it is not a pocket card that gives you the answer without the reason. It is a single-voice clinical text you can read end to end during one rotation. The chapters on catastrophe are not the ones that will change your practice most. The ones on the ordinary decisions made hours earlier are. Those decisions are already being made on your labor floor - the only question is whether you will recognize them in time. Scroll up and get your copy of Analgesia, Anaesthesia and Pregnancy today.