RT Book, Section
A1 Santos, Alan C.
A1 Epstein, Jonathan N.
A1 Chaudhuri, Kallol
SR Print(0)
ID 1108068043
T1 Preface
T2 Obstetric Anesthesia
YR 2015
FD 2015
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071786133
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1108068043
RD 2024/10/06
AB The  specialty  of  obstetric  anesthesia  has  seen  enormous  growth  over  the  past  three  decades.  In  part,  this  is  related  to  greater  expectations  from  women,  as  well  as  the  need  for  anesthetic  care  that  goes  beyond  routine  analgesia  for  labor  or  anesthesia  for  cesarean  delivery.  More  and  more,  women  of  reproductive  age,  with  sometimes  serious  comorbidities,  are  now  able  to  conceive  and  carry  a  pregnancy  to  term,  which  often  results  in  the  need  for  complicated  obstetric  and  anesthetic  interventions.  As  such,  obstetric  anesthesiology  has  become  a  truly  multidisciplinary  specialty,  with  a  focus  not  only  on  anesthesiology  but  also  on  obstetrics,  perinatology,  critical  care,  neonatology,  and  nursing.