Bleeding Disorders During Pregnancy

Critical Care Obstetrics

Jorge Hidalgo, Carlos Montufar-Rueda, Javier Perez-Fernandez (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2025
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-443-21435-6 (ISBN)

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Bleeding Disorders During Pregnancy is a volume in the Critical Care Obstetrics series. It is a novel reference to educate physicians, nurses, and all allied healthcare personnel caring for pregnant women with various health compromises that include bleeding. The authors have gathered the best evidence-based material explicitly focused on severe complications in pregnant patients and postpartum. Among the chapters, the book covers medical–surgical complications that any patient can present, such as obstetrics, hemorrhage, hypovolemic shock, and other bleeding complications specific to pregnancy.

Dr. Jorge Hidalgo is a Professor of Critical Care and the Head of the Division of Critical Care at Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in Belize, Central America. He is the President Elect of the World Federation of Societies of Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine. He has won several awards with the highest recognition and the Director of the very prestigious ACP Review Course hosted by the Paraguay Society of Internal Medicine. Due to his outstanding contribution to the Society of Critical Care Medicine he received the Presidential Citation Award. And Global Safar Award, becoming the First Latin American Intensivist to get this Nomination. He is involved in numerous congresses and a well-recognized international speaker. Dr. Carlos Montufar-Rueda is the Head of the Obstetrics Intensive Care Unit of the "Dr. Arnulfo Arias M." Hospital Complex in Panama City, Panama. He is the creator and National Director of the Fellowship Program in Critical Care Obstetrics in Panama. He has written chapters in different texts on the subject of obstetric complications and obstetric intensive care. In addition, he has participated in clinical research studies, publishing papers in different International Medical Journals. Dr. Montufar-Rueda had an important participation in the creation and structuring of the Fundamental Critical Care Support: Obstetrics course, endorsed by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM). He is a member of SCCM, and is designated as the International Ambassador of Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine (SMFM). Dr. Montufar-Rueda has participated in countless international conferences as an exhibitor from 1997 to date. Dr. Javier Perez-Fernandez serves as Medical Director of the Critical Care Services at Baptist Hospital of Miami. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Florida International University, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine and Professor Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Larkin University, Miami-Dade Florida. He is the Secretary-General of the World Federation of Intensive Care. Dr. Perez-Fernandez manages a large group of critical care physicians, South Florida Critical Care Services, overseeing the operations of seven ICUs with over 350 beds. He has been a regional and national recognized leader during the COVID-19 pandemic with multiple TV and media appearances and consulting services for several national and international organizations. He has been directly involved in the development of Rapid Response Teams, technology implementation and “open ICU models. He has lectured worldwide and author of many original publications with the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

Part 1 Introduction
1. Physiological hematologic changes in pregnancy
2. Obstetrics hemorrhage and hypovolemic shock

Part 2 First Trimester Bleeding
3. Abortion

Part 3 Ante and intrapartum hemorrhage
4. Placental pathologies
5. Uterine rupture

Part 4 Post-Partum Hemorrhage
6. Uterine atony
7. Placenta accreta
8. Uterine inversion
9. Retained products of conception
10. Hepatic rupture

Part 5 Medical and surgical approach
11. Blood component therapy and massive transfusion
12. Hemostatic monitoring in obstetrics hemorrhage
13. Drugs used in massive bleeding

Part 6 Less invasive approach
14. Surgical interventions in obstetrics bleeding (compression suture and vascular ligature)
15. Intrauterine devices in obstetric hemorrhage

Part 7 Invasive approach
16. Damage control surgery in the obstetric patient
17. Consumption and dilutional coagulopathy in critically ill obstetric patient
18. Endocrine consequences of hemorrhagic shock: Sheehan’s syndrome

Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2025
Reihe/Serie	Critical Care in Obstetrics
Verlagsort	San Diego
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 235 mm
Gewicht	640 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
ISBN-10	0-443-21435-2 / 0443214352
ISBN-13	978-0-443-21435-6 / 9780443214356
Zustand	Neuware