Bleeding Disorders During Pregnancy
Critical Care Obstetrics
- 1st Edition - August 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Jorge Hidalgo, Carlos Montufar, Javier Perez-Fernandez
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 4 3 5 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 4 3 6 - 3
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Request a sales quoteBleeding 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.
- Includes obstetric concepts with updated knowledge of physiologic and hematologic changes during pregnancy
- Offers best practice approaches and interventions regarding the fetus, including ectopic pregnancy and abortion
- Explores the use of and effects of drugs in the pregnant patient and potential medical and surgical approaches
- Written by authors with extensive clinical experience in critical obstetric care
Critical Obstetrics Sub Specialists Physicians, Specialists in Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine Specialists, Resident Physicians of the aforementioned specialties, medical students of medicine, Students/Clinicians, 60 % Sub specialists, 20 % Specialists, 20 % Residents and Students
1. Introduction
2. Physiologic Hematologic Changes during pregnancy
3. Obstetrics Hemorrhage and Hypovolemic Shock
4. First Trimester Bleeding
5. Abortion
6. Ectopic pregnancy
7. Ante and Intra-Partum Hemorrhage
8. Previous Placenta
9. Placental Abruption
10. Uterine Rupture
11. POST-PARTUM HEMORRHAGE
12. Uterine Atony
13. Placenta Accreta
14. Genital Tract Trauma
15. Uterine Inversion
16. Reteined Products of Conception
17. Hepatic Rupture
18. Medical and Surgical Approach
19. Fluid Therapy in Hypovolemic Shock
20. Blood Component Therapy and Massive Transfusion
21. Hemostatic Monitoring
22. Pharmacological management of uterine atony
23. Oxitocin
24. Methylergonovine
25. Carbetocin
26. Prostaglandins
27. Drugs for Massive Bleeding
28. Tranexamic Acid
29. Recombinant Factor VII
30. Human prothrombin complex
31. Human Fibrinogen
32. Less Invasive Approach
33. Compression Suture
34. Vascular Ligatures
35. Intra-uterine Devices
36. Endovascular Embolization
37. Invasive Approach
38. Obstetric Hysterectomies
39. Damage Control Surgery
40. Patient's Transport
41. Consumption and Dilutional Coagulopathy
42. Endocrine Consequences of Hemorrhagic Shock
2. Physiologic Hematologic Changes during pregnancy
3. Obstetrics Hemorrhage and Hypovolemic Shock
4. First Trimester Bleeding
5. Abortion
6. Ectopic pregnancy
7. Ante and Intra-Partum Hemorrhage
8. Previous Placenta
9. Placental Abruption
10. Uterine Rupture
11. POST-PARTUM HEMORRHAGE
12. Uterine Atony
13. Placenta Accreta
14. Genital Tract Trauma
15. Uterine Inversion
16. Reteined Products of Conception
17. Hepatic Rupture
18. Medical and Surgical Approach
19. Fluid Therapy in Hypovolemic Shock
20. Blood Component Therapy and Massive Transfusion
21. Hemostatic Monitoring
22. Pharmacological management of uterine atony
23. Oxitocin
24. Methylergonovine
25. Carbetocin
26. Prostaglandins
27. Drugs for Massive Bleeding
28. Tranexamic Acid
29. Recombinant Factor VII
30. Human prothrombin complex
31. Human Fibrinogen
32. Less Invasive Approach
33. Compression Suture
34. Vascular Ligatures
35. Intra-uterine Devices
36. Endovascular Embolization
37. Invasive Approach
38. Obstetric Hysterectomies
39. Damage Control Surgery
40. Patient's Transport
41. Consumption and Dilutional Coagulopathy
42. Endocrine Consequences of Hemorrhagic Shock
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 1, 2025
- No. of pages (Hardback): 460
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443214356
- eBook ISBN: 9780443214363
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Jorge Hidalgo
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Head, Division of Critical care, Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, Belize, Central AmericaCM
Carlos Montufar
Dr. Carlos Montufar 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 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 has participated in countless international conferences as an exhibitor from 1997 to date.
Affiliations and expertise
Head of the Obstetrics Intensive Care Unit, Dr. Arnulfo Arias M Hospital Complex, Panama City, PanamaJP
Javier Perez-Fernandez
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Medical Director, Critical Care Services Baptist Hospital of Miami, Florida, USA