Endocrine Disorders
Abstract Endocrine disease during pregnancy is common and can either predate the pregnancy or be diagnosed during the pregnancy. It is important to understand the impact of the pregnancy on…
Pharmacology during Pregnancy and Lactation
Abstract Drug therapy during pregnancy can be complex because the physiologic changes of pregnancy may alter drug disposition and effect. Maternal medications may have direct effects on the fetus after…
Trauma and Critical Care
Abstract The management of critically ill obstetric patients most commonly involves treatment of disease processes that occur as a direct consequence of pregnancy. Although sometimes life-threatening, these conditions are usually…
Neurologic and Neuromuscular Disease
Abstract The choice of anesthetic technique for pregnant women with neurologic disease requires knowledge of the pathophysiology of the disorder and an understanding of controversies involved in the diagnosis and…
Respiratory Disease
Abstract Patients with asthma, infection, respiratory failure, or cystic fibrosis and patients who smoke cigarettes may have reversible airway obstruction. In patients with airway hyperresponsiveness, tracheal intubation provides one of…
Malignant Hyperthermia
Abstract Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is an inherited disorder of skeletal muscle. On exposure to triggering agents (e.g., succinylcholine, volatile halogenated anesthetic agents), affected individuals demonstrate a hypermetabolic syndrome characterized by…
Optimal Goals for Anesthesia Care in Obstetrics
Committee of Origin: Obstetric Anesthesia Abstract: Good obstetric care requires the availability of qualified personnel and equipment to administer general or neuraxial anesthesia. The extent and degree to which anesthesia…
Practice Guidelines for Obstetric Anesthesia: an Updated Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Obstetric Anesthesia and the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology
• What other guidelines are available on this topic? • These Practice Guidelines update the “Practice Guidelines for Obstetric Anesthesia: An Updated Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task…
American Society of Anesthesiologists Guidelines for Neuraxial Anesthesia in Obstetrics
Committee of Origin: Obstetric Anesthesia These guidelines apply to the use of neuraxial anesthesia and labor anesthesia or analgesia in which local anesthetics are administered to the parturient during labor…
Substance Use Disorders
Abstract Use of certain licit and illicit substances by pregnant women can pose a significant risk to maternal and fetal health. To improve diagnosis and reduce the moral tenor, the…
