M Kannan,G Vijayanand
M Kannan
The incidence of rheumatic mitral stenosis is grossly reduced in India. Still, among heart disease complicating pregnancy, rheumatic mitral stenosis occupies a greater segment. The unique physiological changes in pregnancy and the pathologi...
Indu A Chadha
Indu A Chadha
The following guidelines are intended for practitioners responsible for resuscitating neonates. They apply primarily to neonates undergoing transition from intrauterine to extrauterine life. The updated guidelines on Neonatal Resuscitation ...
Anjan Trikha,Pm Singh
Anjan Trikha
Obstetric patients admitted to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) present a challenge to an intensivist because of normal physiological changes associated with pregnancy and puerperium, the specific medical diseases peculiar to pregnancy and the ...
Complications of regional and general anaesthesia in obstetric practice [0.03%]
obstetric实践中区域麻醉和全身麻醉的并发症
Ashok Jadon
Ashok Jadon
Any anaesthetic technique, either regional or general, has potential for complications. Moreover, it has been seen that in obstetric patients, the complications are potentiated due to pregnancy-related changes in physiology and due to vario...
Anaesthesia for lower-segment caesarean section: Changing perspectives [0.03%]
剖宫产手术麻醉观点的转变：以低段子宫切口为例
Sean Brian Yeoh,Sng Ban Leong,Alex Sia Tiong Heng
Sean Brian Yeoh
The number of caesarean sections has increased over the last two decades, especially in the developed countries. Hence, it has increasingly become a greater challenge to provide care for the parturient, but this has given obstetric anaesthe...
Sunil T Pandya
Sunil T Pandya
Advances in the field of labour analgesia have tread a long journey from the days of ether and chloroform in 1847 to the present day practice of comprehensive programme of labour pain management using evidence-based medicine. Newer advances...
S Velayudhareddy,H Kirankumar
S Velayudhareddy
Management of foetal distress is a subject of gynaecological interest, but an anaesthesiologist should know about resuscitation, because he should be able to treat the patient, whenever he is directly involved in managing the parturient pat...
Nibedita Pani,Shakti Bedanta Mishra,Shovan Kumar Rath
Nibedita Pani
Pregnancy induces progressive changes in maternal carbohydrate metabolism. As pregnancy advances insulin resistance and diabetogenic stress due to placental hormones necessitate compensatory increase in insulin secretion. When this compensa...
Anju Grewal
Anju Grewal
Anaemia in pregnancy defined as haemoglobin (Hb) level of < 10 gm/dL, is a qualitative or quantitative deficiency of Hb or red blood cells in circulation resulting in reduced oxygen (O2)- carrying capacity of the blood. Compensatory mechani...
Sunanda Gupta
Sunanda Gupta