Regional Analgesia in Obstetrics (eBook, PDF)

A Millennium Update
Redaktion: Reynolds, Felicity

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Regional Analgesia in Obstetrics provides an account of the developments in the provision of regional analgesia and anaesthesia in obstetrics over the last decade. The book covers the attitudes to obstetric analgesia in different countries; the indications for regional analgesia in labour; the effects of regional analgesia on outcome; and operative delivery.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer London
• Seitenzahl: 395
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447104353
• Artikelnr.: 44001087

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: Use of regional analgesia - an international perspective.- 1. Anaesthesia care for obstetric patients in the United States.- 2. Obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia in Latin-America.- 3. Pain relief in labour in Great Britain and Ireland.- 4. Regional analgesia in Scandinavia.- 5. Obstetrics anaesthesia practices in some countries in Western Europe.- 6. Use of regional anaesthesia in some Central and Eastern European countries.- 7. Obstetric anaesthesia practices in Turkey.- 8. Regional anaesthesia and analgesia for obstetrics in Australia and New Zealand.- 9. Regional analgesia in obstetrics in the Far East.- Section 2: Developments in techniques in the past decade.- 10. Mobile epidural techniques and new drugs in labour.- 11. Spinal analgesia in labour.- 12. Top-ups versus infusions and patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA).- 13. Before the block: fluid preloading and testing the catheter.- 14. Clinical trials: what should we assess?.- 15. Clinical trials: up-down sequential allocation.- Section 3: Current indications for regional analgesia in labour.- 16. Current indications for regional analgesia: obstetric complications.- 17. Current indications for regional analgesia and anaesthesia: intercurrent medical disease.- 18. Current indications for regional analgesia in labour: what is the place of epidural analgesia in normal labour?.- Section 4: Effects of regional analgesia.- 19. The benefits of labour analgesia.- 20. Effects of regional analgesia on labour and delivery.- 21. Neonatal effects of regional analgesia.- Section 5: Operative delivery.- 22. Regional anaesthesia for operative delivery.- 23. Postoperative pain relief.- Section 6: Complications of regional analgesia.- 24. Immediate complications of regional blockade in obstetrics.- 25. Dural puncture and headache.- 26. Long term sequelae of childbirth: backache.- 27. Long term neurological sequelae of childbirth.- 28. The impact of regional anaesthesia on maternal mortality.- 29. Contraindications to regional analgesia in labour?7.- 30. Medicolegal implications.- 31. Information and consent.