Respiratory Critical Illness During Pregnancy

Respiratory Critical Illness During Pregnancy: Critical Care in Obstetrics, a volume in the Critical Care Obstetrics series, provides a novel reference for healthcare personnel caring for pregnant women with various health compromises specific to respiratory complications. The book's chapters reflect the growing scope of critical care obstetrics and the increasing importance and recognition of the hospital structure's field, covering the most common respiratory complications that any patient can present during pregnancy, including Asthma, Pulmonary Hypertension and Infection, Cystic Fibrosis, Sleep Disorders, Respiratory failure and more.

All intensivists, regardless of primary discipline, must possess a core set of critical care skills that allow them to manage critically ill patients. Here, the authors have gathered the best evidence-based material on respiratory scenarios.

• Covers obstetric concepts with updated knowledge of respiratory changes in pregnancy
• Offers best practice approaches and management of potential serious conditions that may result in respiratory failure
• Explores the use, effects, and management of drugs in the respiratory system during pregnancy
• Includes chapters written by authors with extensive clinical experience in critical obstetric care