Regional Analgesia in Obstetrics A Millennium Update [Paperback]

Regional Analgesia in Obstetrics provides an account of the developments in the provision of regional analgesia and anaesthesia in obstetrics over the last decade. The book covers the attitudes to obstetric analgesia in different countries; the indications for regional analgesia in labour; the effects of regional analgesia on outcome; and operative delivery.At the turn of the century it is appropriate to take stock of thisrelatively young but rapidly developing subject. For the first time, thisbook brings together information on the status of obstetric regionalanalgesia in many parts of the globe, and on the intriguing variability ofmaternal attitudes towards it. Advances in the field over the last decadein new applications, new drugs and techniques and new research tools arealso reviewed.Controversial topics such as the effects of regional analgesia on theprogress of and outcome of labour, the indications, contraindications andcomplications, and the place of regional anaesthesia for operativedelivery are discussed by numerous experts in the field. The problem ofconsent and medicolegal aspects are also addressed.Regional Analgesia in Obstetrics should be read by all those involved inthe medical care of women in childbirth.Professor Felicity Reynolds is Emeritus Professor of ObstetricAnaesthesia, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK.Section 1: Use of regional analgesia  an international perspective.- 1. Anaesthesia care for obstetric patients in the United States.- 2. Obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia in Latin-America.- 3. Pain relief in labour in Great Britain and Ireland.- 4. Regional analgesia in Scandinavia.- 5. Obstetrics anaesthesia practices in some countries in Western Europe.- 6. Use of regional anaesthesia in some Central and Eastern European countries.- 7. Obstetric anaesthesia practices in Turkey.- 8. Regional anaesthesia and analgesia for obstetrics in Australia and New Zealand.- 9. Regional analgesia in obstetrics in the Far East.- Section 2: DevelopmentlC%