Anesthesia and the Fetus

Abstract

As the title suggests, Anesthesia and the Fetus is the first textbook focused specifically on anesthetic implications for the fetus. Editors Yehuda Ginosar, Felicity Reynolds, Stephen Halpern, and Carl Weiner recruited an international and internationally renowned group of anesthesiologists, obstetricians, neonatologists, pharmacologists, toxicologists, teratologists, and ethicists to distill and integrate an extensive and far-reaching body of evidence into a concise and clinically relevant resource.The book is divided into six sections. The first section reviews basic physiology and pharmacology of the pregnant woman, the developing fetus, and the perinatal transition to extra-uterine life. The chapters are generally focused, brief and well organized.