Substance Abuse and the Drug-addicted Mother John T. Sullivan Introduction The primary concerns for obstetric anesthesiologists in managing parturients with a history of substance abuse include understanding and managing the…
Informed Consent and Other Ethical and Legal Issues in Obstetric Anesthesia William J. Sullivan M. Joanne Douglas Introduction Ethical dilemmas exist in medicine when there is more than one possible…
Parturient with Pre-existing Congenital Anomalies David G. Mann General Approach to Patient with A Pre-Existing Congenital Anomaly A pre-existing congenital anomaly is frequently the result of some genetic syndrome, which…
Psychiatric Disorders Julio B. Delgado Michael Frölich Introduction Diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum period is a topic of significant relevance due to the high…
Anesthesia for the Pregnant Patient with Immunologic Disorders Stephen H. Halpern Margaret Srebrnjak Introduction The role of the immune system is to rid the body of foreign material such as…
Renal and Hepatic Disorders in Pregnancy Michael Paech Renal Disease Introduction Renal disease in pregnancy is uncommon, having an estimated incidence of 0.1% (1). It may be present as a…
Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Maternal and Fetal Considerations and Management Roulhac D. Toledano May C. M. Pian-Smith The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) was identified in 1983, and is now estimated to…
Morbid Obesity J. Sudharma Ranasinghe Donald H. Penning Obesity is a metabolic disease in which abnormal or excessive accumulation of adipose tissue represents greater than normal proportion of body mass….
New Thoughts on Bleeding and Coagulation Disorders Moeen K. Panni Introduction Pregnancy induces a protective hypercoagulable state (1) in preparation for the potential bleeding that may occur during delivery of…
The Parturient with Intracranial and Spinal Pathology Ellen M. Lockhart Curtis L. Baysinger Introduction With the improvements in maternal care that have occurred over the last several decades, the relative…
