Respiratory Critical Illness During Pregnancy: Critical Care in Obstetrics, a volume in the Critical Care Obstetrics series, provides a novel reference for healthcare personnel caring for pregnant women with various health compromises specific to respiratory complications. The book's chapters reflect the growing scope of critical care obstetrics and the increasing importance and recognition of the hospital structure's field, covering the most common respiratory complications that any patient can present during pregnancy, including Asthma, Pulmonary Hypertension and Infection, Cystic Fibrosis, Sleep Disorders, Respiratory failure and more.
All intensivists, regardless of primary discipline, must possess a core set of critical care skills that allow them to manage critically ill patients. Here, the authors have gathered the best evidence-based material on respiratory scenarios.
Table of Contents
1. Pulmonary Assessment during pregnancy
2. Pregnancy-Induced respiratory changes3
3. Maternal gas physiology
4. Severe Acute Asthma
5. Thrombo-embolic disease during pregnancy
6. Amniotic Fluid Embolism syndrome
7. Pulmonary Hypertension
8. Pulmonary Infection in Pregnancy
9. Cystic Fibrosis in Pregnancy
10. Restrictive Lung disease in Pregnancy
11. Sickle Chest Syndrome in Pregnancy
12. Sleep-Disorders Breathing in pregnancy
13. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Pregnancy
14. Dyspnea of Pregnancy
15. Pregnancy-associated pulmonary Edema
16. Radiological imaging of the Chest in pregnancy
17. Respiratory Drug Therapy in Pregnancy
18. Biological and immunosuppressive respiratory therapy in pregnancy
19. Oxygen therapy during pregnancy
20. Airway Management during pregnancy
21. Mechanical Ventilation in Pregnancy
22. ECMO during pregnancy
23. Bedside Ultrasound during pregnancy
