Obstetric anesthesia

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• Amniotic fluid embolism
• Anticoagulation, thrombocytopenia and neuraxial blocks
• Cardiac disease in pregnancy
• EXIT procedure (ex utero intrapartum treatment)
• Fetal heart rate tracings and emergent deliveryNew in 2026
• General anesthesia for cesarean delivery
• High or total spinal
• Intrapartum fever: chorioamnionitis versus epidural-related fever
• Maternal cardiac arrest and resuscitative hysterotomy
• Neuraxial anesthesia for cesarean: epidural top-up, failed block and conversion
• Neuraxial labor analgesia and its complications
• Non-obstetric surgery during pregnancy
• Obstetric hemorrhage: previa, accreta, atony
• Physiologic changes of pregnancy
• Post-dural puncture headache
• Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia
• Preterm labor: tocolysis, magnesium and the preterm cesarean
• Retained placenta and uterine relaxation
• Ruptured ectopic pregnancy with hemorrhagic shock
• The obese parturient
• Trial of labor after cesarean and uterine rupture
• Twin and breech vaginal delivery and external cephalic version
• Umbilical cord prolapse and the category 1 cesarean
• Uterotonics and tocolytics