ob anesthesia syllabus

317 Pages·2011·15.63 MB·English

OB ANESTHESIA SYLLABUS
Table of Contents – Volume 1

SECTION I – INTRODUCTION – Page 4
1. General Information
2. Cookbook, Goals & Objectives
3. Anesthesia for L&D Procedures
4. Record-Keeping in OB
5. Obstetrics – Never a Dull Moment!
6. Clinical Update
7. ASA Practice Guidelines
8. ACOG Committee Opinion #433: Optimal Goals for Anesthesia Care in Obstetrics
9. ACOG Committee Opinion #339: Analgesia and Cesarean Delivery Rates

SECTION II – PHYSIOLOGY OF PREGNANCY – Page 56
1. Anesthetic Implications of Maternal Physiological Changes During Pregnancy
2. Hemodynamic Assessment in a Pregnant and Peripartum Patient
3. Pregnancy and Laboratory Studies

SECTION III – ANALGESIA FOR LABOR – Page 80
1. Epidural Analgesia for Labor and Delivery
2. Epidural Analgesia for Labor: Safety and Success
3. Success of Spinal and Epidural Labor Analgesia
4. Patient Controlled Epidural Analgesia for labor
5. Ultrasound-Facilitated Epidurals and Spinals in Obstetrics
6. Changes in the Position of Epidural Catheters Associated with Patient Movement
7. Timing of Conduction Analgesia in Labor
8. Neuraxial Labor Analgesia and Pregnancy Outcome: Fact and Fiction
9. Epidural Analgesia in the Latent Phase of Labor and the Risk of Cesarean Delivery
10. Continuous Spinal Anesthesia and Analgesia in Obstetrics
11. Failure of Augmentation of Labor Epidural Analgesia for Intrapartum Cesarean Delivery:
A Retrospective Review
12. Parenteral Opioids for Labor Analgesia

SECTION IV – ANESTHESIA FOR CESAREAN DELIVERY – Page 164
1. Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery
2. Spinal Anesthesia
3. Spinal Anaesthesia for Caesarean Delivery: Keep the Pressure Up and Don’t Spare the
Vasoconstrictors
4. General Anesthesia: Current Issues
5. General Anesthesia is Unacceptable for Elective Cesarean Section
6. Airway Problems in Pregnancy
7. Through and Beyond Anaesthesia Awareness
SECTION V – OB DRUGS – Page 195
1. Obstetric Medications

SECTION VI – POSTOPERATIVE PAIN MANAGEMENT – Page 205
1. Postcesarean Epidural Morphine: A Dose-Response Study
2. Dose Response Relationship of Intrathecal Morphine for Postcesarean Analgesia
3. The Analgesic Efficacy of Subarachnoid Morphine in Comparison with Ultrasound-
Guided Transversus Abdominis Plane Block After Cesarean Delivery: A Randomized
Controlled Trial

SECTION VII – POSTPARTUM TUBAL LIGATION – Page 226
1. One-Year Follow-up of Women With Unfulfilled Postpartum Sterilization Requests
2. Postpartum Tubal Ligations: Timing and Other Anesthetic Considerations
3. Timing and Anesthetic Technique for Postpartum Tubal Ligations (Pro-Con)
4. Labor Epidural Catheter Reactivation or Spinal Anesthesia for Delayed Postpartum Tubal
Ligation: A Cost Comparison

SECTION VIII – NEURAXIAL COMPLICATIONS – Page 252
1. Incidence of Epidural Hematoma, Infection, and Neurologic Injury in Obstetric Patients
with Epidural Analgesia/Anesthesia
2. Neuraxial Anesthesia in Obstetric Patients Receiving Anticoagulant and Antithrombotic
Drugs
3. Bacterial Meningitis After Intrapartum Spinal Anesthesia—New York and Ohio--2009
4. Practice Advisory for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Infectious
Complications Associated with Neuraxial Techniques (ASA Special Article)
5. The Incidence of Transient Radicular Irritation After Spinal Anesthesia in Obstetric
Patients
6. Neurologic Examination for the Uninitiated
7. Nerve Injury After Neuraxial
8. Postdural Puncture Headache: How to Keep It the Patient’s Headache
9. Postpartum Headache (Review Article)
10. Subarachnoid Catheter Placement after Wet Tap for Analgesia in Labor
I
INTRODUCTION