Anesthesia and the Fetus

Abstract

Anesthesia and the Fetus integrates into one volume the multidisciplinary components of: • fetal development • fetal pharmacology • assessments of fetal and neonatal outcome • anesthesia and analgesia during pregnancy • anesthesia and analgesia during labor • ethics and law. Written by an internationally renowned group of clinicians and scientists, Anesthesia and the Fetus provides a contemporary guide and reference to the role of anesthesia, and the anesthesiologist, in protecting the mother and her unborn child during pregnancy. © 2013 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.