Trauma During Pregnancy

Trauma During Pregnancy is a volume in the Critical Care Obstetrics series. It’s a novel reference to educate physicians, nurses, and all allied healthcare personnel caring for pregnant women experiencing trauma. The authors offer best practices and evidence-based material explicitly focused on the most common complications in pregnant patients that may occur to improve patient care. It not only covers critical care investigation from medical-surgical complications that any patient can present, but also how to prepare and anticipate complications in the critical care unit.

• Includes obstetric concepts with updated knowledge for dealing with preparing and managing patient trauma
• Offers best practice approaches and interventions of sedation and pain management
• Presents the use of and effects of drugs including overdose, poisoning, and envenomation with potential medical surgical interventions
• Chapters cover everything from organizing an obstetrical care unit, to nursing, nutrition, and transportation of the patient