Trauma During Pregnancy

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-443-21763-0
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 460 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hidalgo, Jorge

Montufar-Rueda, Carlos

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Organizing an Obstetrical Critical Care Unit
2. Critical Care Nursing
3. Vascular Access
4. Nutritional Support
5. Sedation and Pain Management in Pregnancy
6. Critical Care Drills in Obstetrics
7. Transportation of the Critically-ill pregnant patient
8. Acute Spinal Card injury
9. Thermal and electric injury
10. Overdose, poisoning, and envenomation
11. Mass Casualties
12. Biological and Chemical radiology exposure
13. Management of BURNS in pregnancy
14. Drowning and Near drowning
15. Catastrophic Trauma
16. Pelvic Trauma
17. Blunt Trauma
18. Perinatal Mental Health
19. Ethical Considerations

Über Autor(innen)

Hidalgo, Jorge
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.

Montufar-Rueda, Carlos
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.