Obstetric Catastrophes: A Clinical Guide

ISBN-13: 9783030700362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Montufar, Carlos

Opis

This book provides a comprehensive overview of critical care obstetrics. The text reviews different diseases and complications that can cause a pregnant patient to go into critical condition, while outlining treatment and management strategies for effective patient care. Critical scenarios covered include obstetric hemorrhage, pulmonary edema in preeclampsia, cardiac arrest, septic shock, abdominal hypertension, uterine rupture, and acute renal failure. 

Written by experts in the field, Obstetric Catastrophes: A Clinical Guide is a valuable resource for critical care intensivists, obstetricians, and any practitioners involved in the treatment and management of the obstetric patient in critical condition.

Spis treści

1. Critical Care in the Obstetric Patient

2. Hemodynamic Monitoring in Pregnancy and Puerperium

3. Eclampsia

4. Hellp Syndrome

5. Acute Fatty Liver in Pregnancy

6. Liver Failure and Hepatic Encephalopathy in Pregnancy

7. Liver Hematoma and Hepatic Rupture

8. Pregnancy associated Thrombotic thrombocytopenic and Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome

9. Hypermesis Gravidarum

10. Diabetes Ketoacidosis

11. Hypoglycemia in Pregnancy

12. Thyroid Emergencies during Pregnancy

13. Ovarian Hyperstimulation: Pathophsyiology, Risk Factors

14. Iatrogenic Multiple Pregnancy

15. Procedures in the Critically Ill Pregnant Women

16. ECMO during prenancy

17. Nutrition in the Critically Ill Obstetric Patients

18. Blunt Trauma

19. Adynamic Ileus: Intraabdominal Hypertension Syndrome

20. Burn Management in Pregnancy

21. Drowning and Near-Drowning Management during Pregnancy

22. Acute Spinal Cord Compression in Pregnancy

23. Envenomations: Snake Bites and Scorpion Stings

24. Pregnant patient with acute respiratory failure due to thromboembolic disease

25. Severe Acute Asthma

26. Anaphylaxis During Pregnancy

27. Sepsis And Septic Shock In Pregnant Patient

28. Chorioamnioitis

29. Pneumonia During Pregnancy

30. Tetanus in the Pregnant Woman

31. Malaria in the Pregnant Women

32. Dengue in Pregnant Women

33. Ricketsiosis in Pregnant Women

34. Acute coronary syndromes in pregnancy

35. Aortic Disection in Pregnancy

36. Cardiac Tamponade

37. Cardiac Arrest in Pregnancy

38. Pregnancy Related Infective Endocarditis 

39. Seizures in Pregnancy

40. Neurogenic Shock in Pregnant Women

41. Prolonged Somatic Support in the Brain During Pregnancy and Perinatal Period: Medico-legal and Bio-ethcial Aspects

42. Oliguria

43. Acute Kidney Injury During Pregnancy

44. Hematological Emergencies

45. Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura

46. Bleeding during Pregnancy

47. Cancer in Obstetrics

48. Superior Vena Cava Syndrome in Pregnant Woman

O autorze

Carlos Montufar, MD

Head of Critical Care Obstetrics Unit

Hospital Doctor Arnulfo Arias Madrid

Panama City

Panama

Jorge Hidalgo, MD, MACP, MCCM, FCCP

Professor of Critical Care

Chief, Division of Critical Care

Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital

Belize City

Belize 

Alfredo F. Gei, MD

High Risk Pregnancy (MFM) Specialist

Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center

Houston, TX 

USA

Carlos Montufar, Head of Critical Care Obstetrics Unit. Director of Critical Care Obstetrics Fellowship Program. For the last 20 years, he has dedicated to developing and managing critically ill obstetric patients. Also,  he had a long teaching career and pioneering obstetric critical care.

Dr Hidalgo is an internationally recognized leader in Intensive Care Medicine, at Belize Healthcare Partners. He established the first general intensive care unit in Belize in 2002. Dr Hidalgo is a pioneer of Critical Care Medicine in Belize, and in 2010, he founded Central America and the Caribbean Consortium of the Intensive Care Medicine. In recognition of his contributions to the field of Intensive Care Medicine, he has been awarded the Presidential Citation Award from the American Society of Intensive Care Medicine for ten consecutive years. He has also received the Master of the American College of Physician award from the ACP. The first Latin American Intensivist to receive the Master of the American College of Critical Care.

Dr Alfredo Gei, an obstetrician-gynaecologist specializing in high-risk pregnancy and affiliated with Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, knows all too well the complications that come with multiple births. Not only has he worked with many families going through the process, but he also helped bring a mother of quadruplets to term at 33 weeks—nearly three weeks longer than the national average for quadruplets and of crucial importance to the health of the babies.