Critical Care Obstetrics (7^th Ed.)

Improve medical outcomes for both mothers and children with this essential guide

For the first time in decades, maternal mortality rates are climbing in the United States. Factors including lack of access to prenatal care, un- or underinsured populations, rising rates of cardiovascular disease, and more combine to make pregnancy and childbirth more dangerous prospects. In this environment, the study of critical care obstetrics has never been more essential.

Critical Care Obstetrics, Seventh Edition a fully updated guide to the medical management of serious conditions in pregnancy and childbirth. Beginning with basic principles, it surveys the potential serious complications occurring in pregnancy and delivery and the techniques and procedures for maximizing patient outcomes for both pregnant people and fetuses. This clear, accessible text promises to continue the essential work of earlier editions.

Readers of the seventh edition of Critical Care Obstetrics will also find:

• Detailed protocols for implementing life-saving treatments in emergencies
• New chapters on topics including ECMO, antibiotics, and pneumonia
• Authorship by internationally renowned experts in emergency obstetrics

Critical Care Obstetrics is ideal for working clinical obstetricians and for trainees in obstetrics and gynecology.

Basic Critical Care Clinical & Surgical Principles

1. Epidemiology of Critical Illness in Pregnancy
Cande V. Ananth; John C. Smulian, MD, MPH

2. Organizing an Obstetrical Critical Care Unit: Care without walls
Julie Scott, MD; Michael R. Foley, MD

3. Critical Care Obstetric Nursing
Nan H. Troiano, MSN, RN-OB, C-EFM, NE-BC; Suzanne McMurtry Baird, DNP, RN

4. Pregnancy-Induced Physiologic Alterations
Errol R. Norwitz, MD, PhD.; Julian N. Robinson, MD

5. Maternal Blood Gas Physiology
Aaron B. Caughey, MD, PhD

6. Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
William E. Scorza; Sharon Maynard; Anthony Scardella

7. Interventional Radiology in Pregnancy
Sheena Pimpalwar, MD, Michael A. Belfort, MBBCH, DA, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FRCOG

8. Fetal Considerations in the Critically Ill Gravida
Jeffrey P. Phelan, MD, JD

9. Fetal Effects of Drugs Commonly Used in Critical Care
Sarah Gloria Obican; Jerome Yankowitz, MD

10. Maternal-Fetal Oxygenation
Alfred D. Fleming, MD; Marsha Henn, MSN, BSN, RNC-MNN

11. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) in Pregnancy
Terri-Ann Bennett, MD; Carolyn Zelop, MD

12. Neonatal Resuscitation in the critical care setting
Jay P. Goldsmith, MD; Gilbert I. Martin, MD

13. Ventilator Management in Critical Illness
Luis D. Pacheco, MD; Antonio Saad

14. Vascular Access
Gayle Olson, MD; Aristides P. Koutrouvelis, MD

15. Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition
Bill Tang, MD, Pharm. D; Michael J. Tang, BA; Jeffrey P. Phelan, MD, JD

16. Acute Kidney Injury and Renal Replacement Therapy
Evan I. Fisher; Shad H. Deering; James D. Oliver, III; Kristin L. Elmezzi; Caroline C Marrs; C Luke Dixon; Shad H. Deering; Giuseppe Chiossi

17. Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Alexis L. McQuitty, MD

18. ECMO in Obstetrics

NEW CHAPTER

19. Antibiotics, Antivirals, and Antifungals in Critical Care

NEW CHAPTER

20. Noninvasive Monitoring in Critical Care
Amir Shamshirsaz; Michael A. Belfort, MBBCH, DA (SA), MD (Cape Town), PhD, FRCSC, FRCOG

21. Critical Care Drills in Obstetrics
Monica A. Lutgendorf, MD; Shad H. Deering, MD

22. Maternal-Fetal Transports in the High Risk, Pregnancy
Albert P. Sarno, Jr., MD, MPH; Joshua Makhoul, MD; John C. Smulian, MD, MPH

Acute Emergencies

23. Seizure and Status Epilepticus
Michael W. Varner, MD

24. Acute Spinal Cord Injury
Lisa R. Wenzel, MD; Angela Vrooman, DO; Hunter Hamill, MD

25. Severe Acute Asthma
Dharani Narendra, MD; Nicola A. Hanania, MD, MS

26. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Pregnancy
Dharani K. Narendra, MD; David Muigai, MD; Kalpalatha K. Guntupalli, MD

27. The Acute Abdomen During Pregnancy
Ibrahim A. Hammad; Howard T. Sharp

28. Acute Pancreatitis
Anna S. Leung; Jeffrey P. Phelan

29. Pneumonia during pregnancy (Bacterial and Viral)

NEW CHAPTER

30. Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy
Ibrahim A. Hammad; T. Flint Porter

31. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
Nazli Hossain FCPS; Michael J. Paidas, MD

32. Endocrine Emergencies
Mary C. Tolcher; Heather S. Hoff; Kjersti M. Aagaard

33. Acute Psychiatric Conditions in Pregnancy
Lucy Puryear

34. Diabetic Ketoacidosis
Mark A Curran, MD

Shock in Pregnancy

35. Hypovolemic Shock
Jerasimos Ballas, MD, MPH; Scott Roberts, MD, MSc

36. Blood Component Therapy and Massive Transfusion
Shiu-Ki R Hui; Kjersti M Aagaard; Jun Teruya

37. Etiology and Management of Hemorrhage (includes accreta)
Irene A. Stafford; Michael A. Belfort; Gary A. Dildy III; Karin A. Fox; Martha Rac; Alireza Shamshirsaz

38. Septic Shock
Sonya S. Abdel-Razeq; Errol R. Norwitz

39. Cardiogenic Shock (Includes cardiogenic pulmonary edema)
Scott Roberts, MD, Wayne J. Franklin; William C. Mabie, Martha Rac, MD

40. Anaphylactic Shock in Pregnancy
Raymond Powrie, MD

41. Amniotic Fluid Embolism
Gary A. Dildy; Michael A. Belfort; Steven L. Clark

Medical/Surgical Management

42. Pregnancy-Related Stroke
Jamil Elfarra; James N. Martin, Jr

43. Cardiac Disease and Pregnancy
Wayne J. Franklin; Roxann Rokey; Michael R. Foley, and Michael A. Belfort

44. Anesthesia Considerations for the Critically Ill Gravida with Cardiac Disease
Shoba Chandrasekhar; Lisa Mouzi Wofford; Sandeep Markan; Yi Deng

45. Thromboembolic Disease
Martha P. Mims

46. Pulmonary Hypertension in Pregnancy
Mohammad Zaidan, MD; Alexander G. Duarte, MD

47. Sickle Cell Disease and Pregnancy
Iberia Romina Sosa, MD, PhD; Mark M. Udden, MD

48. Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome and HELLP
Kelty R. Baker, MD, PA

49. Complications of Preeclampsia
Mary C. Tolcher; Hector Mendez-Figueroa; Kjersti M. Aagaard

50. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Antiphospholipid Syndrome
Fawzi Saoud, MD; Maged M. Costantine

51. Trauma in Pregnancy
Robert Rossi; Alfred Gei; James W. Van Hook

52. Thermal and Electrical Injury
Cornelia R. Graves

53. Overdose, Poisoning and Envenomation During Pregnancy
Alfredo F. Gei; Victor R. Suarez; James Van Hook

54. The Organ Transplant Patient in the Obstetric Critical Care Setting
Calla Holmgren; James Scott

55. Fetal Surgery Procedures and Associated Maternal Complications
Alireza A. Shamshirsaz; Venkata Bandi; David M. Muigai; R.H. Ball; Michael A. Belfort

56. Cancer in the Pregnant Patient
Kristin Bixel; Kenneth H. Kim; David M. O'Malley

57. Mass Casualties and the Obstetrical Patient
Lisa M. Foglia; Peter E. Nielson

58. Biological, Chemical and Radiological Exposures in Pregnancy
Lisa M. Foglia; Peter E. Nielson

Ethical and Legal Considerations

59. Ethics in the Obstetric Critical Care Setting
Fidelma B. Rigby

60. Medical-legal Considerations in Critical Care Obstetrics
Jeffrey P. Phelan, MD, JD

Luis D. Pacheco, MD, is Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Anesthesiology and Division Chief of Obstetrics and Maternal Fetal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston. He is board certified in critical care medicine.

Jeffrey P. Phelan, MD, is a Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist and Obstetrician-Gynecologist in West Covina, California, and holds positions at multiple area hospitals. He has over 35 years of clinical experience in the practice of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and in the area of Critical Care OB. Of note, Dr. Phelan has served as an editor and author on all prior editions of Critical Care OB.

Torre L. Halscott MD, MS, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and medical director of the Nelson Obsterical Clinic. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is board certified in critical care medicine.

Leslie A. Moroz MD, MS, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale School of Medicine. She is board certified in critical care medicine.

Arthur J. Vaught, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Surgery. He is the Director of Labor and Delivery and of the Advanced Obstetric Surgery Center. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. He is board certified in critical care medicine.

Antonio F. Saad, Professor at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Director of Perinatal Research Unit And MFM Fellowship, Inova Health, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus.

Amir A. Shamshirsaz, MD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital/Pavillion for Women and Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center. He is board certified in critical care medicine.