Bleeding Disorders During Pregnancy is a volume in the Critical Care Obstetrics series. It is a novel reference to educate physicians, nurses, and all allied healthcare personnel caring for pregnant women with various health compromises that include bleeding. The authors have gathered the best evidence-based material explicitly focused on severe complications in pregnant patients and postpartum. Among the chapters, the book covers medical–surgical complications that any patient can present, such as obstetrics, hemorrhage, hypovolemic shock, and other bleeding complications specific to pregnancy.
Key Features:
Includes obstetric concepts with updated knowledge of physiologic and hematologic changes during pregnancy
Offers best practice approaches and interventions regarding the fetus, including ectopic pregnancy and abortion
Explores the use of and effects of drugs in the pregnant patient and potential medical and surgical approaches
Written by authors with extensive clinical experience in critical obstetric care
Readership:
Critical Obstetrics Sub Specialists Physicians, Specialists in Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine Specialists, Resident Physicians of the aforementioned specialties, medical students of medicine, Students/Clinicians, 60 % Sub specialists, 20 % Specialists, 20 % Residents and Students
Table of contents:
Part 1: Introduction
1. Physiological hematologic changes in pregnancy
2. Obstetrics hemorrhage and hypovolemic shock
Part 2: First Trimester Bleeding
3. Abortion
Part 3: Ante and intrapartum hemorrhage
4. Placental pathologies
5. Uterine rupture
Part 4: Post-Partum Hemorrhage
6. Uterine atony
7. Placenta accreta
8. Uterine inversion
9. Retained products of conception
10. Hepatic rupture
Part 5: Medical and surgical approach
11. Blood component therapy and massive transfusion
12. Hemostatic monitoring in obstetric hemorrhage
13. Drugs used in massive bleeding
Part 6: Less invasive approach
14. Surgical interventions in obstetrics bleeding (compression suture and vascular ligature)
15. Intrauterine devices in obstetric hemorrhage
Part 7: Invasive approach
16. Damage control surgery in the obstetric patient
17. Consumption and dilutional coagulation in critically ill obstetric patients
18. Endocrine consequences of hemorrhagic shock: Sheehan’s syndrome
