Table of Contents

Physiologic Adaptation During Pregnancy.- Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy.- Anesthesia for Severe Preeclampsia.- Effects of Pregnancy on Local Anesthetic Action and Toxicity.- Obstetric Emergencies.- Anesthesia for Surgery in the Pregnant Surgical Patient.- Fetal Considerations in the Critically I11 Obstetric Patient.- Does Epidural Analgesia Prolong Labor and Increase the Incidence of Instrumental or Operative Delivery?.- Anesthesia for the Inner-City Parturient.- Aspiration: Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment.- Combined Spinal/Epidural Anesthesia (CSE) for Labor and Delivery.- Resuscitation of the Newborn.- Neonatal Physiology of Importance to the Anesthesiologist.- Anesthesia for the Neonate: Emergent and Non-emergent.- Fasting and Premedication in Infants and Children.- Anesthesia for the Ex-premature Infant.- Management of the Difficult Pediatric Airway.- Muscle Relaxants in Infants and Children.- New Inhalational Anesthetics in Infants and Children.- Stress Responses in Pediatric Anesthesia.- Perioperative Fluid and Blood Volume Management in Infants and Children.- Regional Anesthesia in the Pediatric Patient.- Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting in Children.- An Update on Malignant Hyperthermia and Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy.- Pediatric Outpatient Anesthesia.- Anesthetic Considerations in Congenital Heart Disease.- Ketamine — From “Star Wars” to Dinosaur in 25 Years?.- Current Status of Intravenous Anesthesia in Children.- Postoperative Pain Management in the Pediatric Patient.

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