This session describes the pathophysiology, basic clinical and anaesthetic management of women with pre-eclampsia and eclampsia, emphasizing the points which are relevant to anaesthesia and analgesia.
This session looks at potentially fatal medical issues that are particular to the pregnant patient, management plans for these conditions, obstetric early warning scores and national statistical data.
This session will explore the maternal and fetal problems commonly encountered in pregnancy and labour, and obstetric interventions aimed at reducing morbidity will be introduced.
This session explains how to prepare for a regional analgesia for labour, how to insert an epidural catheter and how to establish and maintain labour analgesia.
This session describes the options, risks and the routine preoperative preparation necessary for the pregnant patient, including guidance on the high-risk categories that require senior involvement.
This session describes the physiological processes that take place during normal human labour, focusing particularly on the powers, the passenger and passage involved.
This session describes circulation and oxygen delivery in the fetus with particular reference to control of the fetal circulation and the transition to the neonatal circulation at birth.
