Obstetric Anesthesia Practice

Alan D. Kaye, MD, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology at Louisiana State University in New Orleans.Richard D. Urman, MD, MBA, is Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Director of the Center for Perioperative Research in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, and Brigham and Women's Hospital.

• 1 Physiologic changes during pregnancy 2 The Placenta: Anatomy, Physiology, Uteroplacental Blood Flow, and Drug Transfer 3 Fetal Physiology and Antepartum Fetal Surveillance 4 Coexisting Disease and the Parturient Part One: Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Renal, Gastrointestinal 5 Coexisting Disease and the Parturient - Part 2 6 Parturient Anesthesia Assessment and Evaluation 7 The high-risk obstetric patient: pregnancy-induced conditions 8 Intrapartum Monitoring and Fetal Assessment 9 Obstetric management of labor and vaginal delivery 10 Pharmacology and Non-Anesthetic Drugs During Pregnancy and Lactation 11 Local anesthetics 12 Opioid analgesia 13 Neuraxial Anesthesia 14 Alternative regional anesthetic techniques: labor and vaginal delivery 15 Non-opioid analgesic techniques 16 Non-pharmacologic management of labor and delivery 17 Neuraxial Techniques and Medications for Cesarean Delivery 18 Airway management 19 General Anesthesia for Caesarian delivery 20 Antepartum and postpartum hemorrhage 21 Cesarean delivery: postoperative management 22 Neonatal assessment and resuscitation 23 Postpartum complications 24 Trauma and critical care during pregnancy 25 Non-obstetric surgery during pregnancy 26 Anesthesia for Fetal Surgery 27 Anesthesia for assisted reproductive techniques 28 Medicolegal issues