This is a comprehensive guide to Clinical Anesthesia for the pregnant mother. Topics include: maternal respiratory changes during pregnancy and parturition, maternal cardiovascular dynamics during pregnancy and parturition, inferior vena caval occlusion in late pregnancy, the initiation of labor, biochemical monitoring by fetal blood sampling, biophysical monitoring by fetal electrocardiography, the use of fetal EEG in the study of obstetric anesthesia, maternal and fetal acid-base balance in labor, effect of changes in maternal oxygen and carbon dioxide tensions on the fetus, analgesia during labor, barbiturates in newborn animals, anesthesia for elective cesarean section, thermal care of the infant at birth, and much more.
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