Bleeding Disorders During Pregnancy: Critical Care Obstetrics

by Jorge Hidalgo MD, MACP, MCCM, FCCP (Editor), Carlos Montufar MD (Editor), Javier Perez-Fernandez MD (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780443214356
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	08/01/2025
Series:	Critical Care in Obstetrics
Pages:	460
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

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 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.

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.

Table of Contents

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

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An evidence-based approach and balanced selection of the most seen bleeding disorders and complications in pregnant women