E-raamat: Anesthesia and the Fetus

Ginosar (Hadassah Hebrew U. Medical Center, Israel), Reynolds, Halpern, and Weiner offer anesthesiologists, obstetricians, perinatologists, neonatologists, pediatricians, and midwives a guide consisting of 40 chapters that address the role of anesthesia in the care of the fetus during pregnancy, from embryonic development and fetal growth through early neonatal life. Obstetricians and gynecologists, anesthesiologists, neonatologists, maternal fetal medicine specialists, and other clinicians from North America, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and South Africa examine aspects of fetal development, including maternal physiological adaptations to pregnancy, placental respiratory gas exchange, fetal circulation, fetal responses to hypoxia, and pharmacokinetics; fetal pharmacology; assessments of fetal outcome; and the impact of anesthetic interventions on the fetus and newborn, including anesthesia for cesarean delivery, analgesia for labor, the compromised fetus and mother (due to multiple pregnancy, preeclampsia, or fetal distress), trauma and resuscitation, and ethics and the law. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Anesthesia and the Fetus integrates into one volume the multidisciplinary components of:

• fetal development
• fetal pharmacology
• assessments of fetal and neonatal outcome
• anesthesia and analgesia during pregnancy
• anesthesia and analgesia during labor
• ethics and law

Written by an internationally renowned group of clinicians and scientists, Anesthesia and the Fetus provides a contemporary guide and reference to the role of anesthesia, and the anesthesiologist, in protecting the mother and her unborn child during pregnancy.