Evidence-based obstetric anesthesia

• Other Authors: Halpern, Stephen H. (Editor), Douglas, M. Joanne (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, Mass. BMJ Books Blackwell Pub. 2005
• Subjects: Anesthesia, Obstetrical; Evidence-Based Medicine
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This is the first text to systematically review the evidence for obstetric anesthesia and analgesia. Evidence-based practice is now being embraced worldwide as a requirement for all clinicians; in the everyday use of anesthesia and analgesia for childbirth, anesthetists will find this synthesis of t...

Table of Contents:

• Consent for obstetric analgesia and anesthesia / M. Joanne Douglas
• Epidural analgesia and the progress of labor / Barbara L. Leighton and Stephen H. Halpern
• Maintenance of epidural analgesia for labor - continuous infusion or patient controlled / Stephen H. Halpern
• The use of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation for labor pain / Carolyn F. Weininger
• Is nitrous oxide an effective analgesic for labor? A qualitative systematic review / Jean K. Kronberg and Dorothy E.A. Thompson
• Choice of local anesthetic for labor and delivery - bupivacaine, ropivacaine, and levobupivacaine / Stephen H. Halpern
• Intrathecal opioids in labor - do they increase the risk of fetal bradycardia? / Chahé Mardirosoff and Martin R. Tramèr
• Epidural catheter design and the incidence of complications / Margaret Srebrnjak and Stephen H. Halpern
• The effect of increasing central blood volume to decrease hypotension following spinal anesthesia for Cesarean section / Pamela J. Morgan
• The use of vasopressors for the prevention and treatment of hypotension secondary to regional anesthesia for Cesarean section / Stephen H. Halpern and Michelle Chochinov
• Is regional anesthesia safer then general anesthesia for Cesarean section? / Yehuda Ginosaur, Ian F. Russell, and Stepehn H. Halpern
• Prevention and treatment of side-effects of neuraxial opioids / Niall L. Purdie and Martin van der Vyver
• Multimodal analgesia following Cesarean section: use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs combined with neuraxial opioids / Pamela Angle and Kamal Hussain
• The use of neuraxial anesthesia in parturients with thrombocytopenia: what is an adequate platelet count? / M. Joanne Douglas
• A rational approach to aspiration prophylaxis / Geraldine O'Sullivan, Darren Hart, and Andrew Shennan
• Postdural puncture headache / Peter T.-L. Choi and Stefan Lucas
• Epidural analgesia and back pain / Terrance W. Breen
• Analgesia for external cephalic version / William Wight
• Is there a difference between the obstetric and non-obstetric airway? / Eric Goldszmidt.