This new addition to the highly successful Core Topics in Anaesthesia series provides a clinically relevant text for both trainees and consultants‎,‎ covering the entire sub‎-specialty of obstetric anaesthesia‎.‎ In‎-depth coverage of pregnancy‎-related physiology and pharmacology makes this book an excellent revision tool for basic science examinations‎.‎ It is also a troubleshooting guide for anaesthetists when managing parturients suffering with concurrent medical conditions including obesity‎,‎ sepsis‎,‎ hypertensive‎,‎ renal‎,‎ respiratory‎,‎ neurological‎,‎ haematological and endocrine diseases‎.‎ Chapters provide recommended management plans for specific conditions such as HIV and neuropraxia following regional anaesthesia‎,‎ and include algorithms to guide clinical decision‎-making‎.‎ Guidance on the required infrastructure for setting up services such as antenatal clinics is also included‎.‎ Experts in their fields have contributed sections including allergy testing and immunology‎,‎ the immunocompromised parturient‎,‎ and maternal collapse‎.‎ This practical resource will serve as a survival guide for all those caring for parturients on the delivery suite‎.‎

• Author‎:‎ Kirsty MacLennan‎,‎ Kate O`Brien
• Publisher‎:‎ Cambridge University Press
• ISBN‎:‎ 9781107028494