Obstetric Anaesthesia for Developing Countries
Anaesthesia services in developing countries are often limited due to a shortage of basic facilities, equipment and drugs, as well as a lack of personnel and proper training. Anaesthesia services for obstetric procedures pose a particular problem in developing countries, where high rates of anaesthesia-related complications and fetal/maternal mortality are seen in connection with otherwise common procedures such as caesarean section. This concise and practical pocketbook covers the basic princi…
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- Full title :Obstetric Anaesthesia for Developing Countries.
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Anaesthesia services in developing countries are often limited due to a shortage of basic facilities, equipment and drugs, as well as a lack of personnel and proper training. Anaesthesia services for obstetric procedures pose a particular problem in developing countries, where high rates of anaesthesia-related complications and fetal/maternal mortality are seen in connection with otherwise common procedures such as caesarean section. This concise and practical pocketbook covers the basic principles of obstetric anaesthesia with a special emphasis on the unique challenges of service delivery in.
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- Publication Date:2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):OUP Oxford
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (399 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0199572143, 9780199572144
- oclc:ocn990603707
- LC Classification:RG732 .O2646 2010
- Dewey Decimal:617.9/682
Table of Contents
Cover; Epigraph; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Symbols and abbreviations; Contributors; 1 Setting up a maternity anaesthetic service; 2 Maternal physiology and pathophysiology; 3 Maternal pharmacology; 4 Monitoring the mother; 5 Basic principles of obstetric anaesthesia; 6 Pain relief in labour; 7 Spinal anaesthesia; 8 Epidural anaesthesia; 9 Complications of regional anaesthesia; 10 Other local anaesthetic techniques; 11 Post delivery; 12 General anaesthesia; 13 Complications of general anaesthesia; 14 Pre-existing disease; 15 The sick mother.
16 Pre-eclampsia17 Obstetric haemorrhage; 18 Embolic disease; 19 Anaesthesia and analgesia for specific obstetric conditions; 20 Intrauterine fetal resuscitation and newborn resuscitation; Index.
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