Obstetric Anesthesia Curriculum

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• Physiologic Changes of Pregnancy The adaptation of the cerebral circulation to pregnancy: mechanisms and consequences

• Placental circulation and maternal-fetal drug transfer
  • Obstetric and Fetal Pharmacology
  • Maternal–fetal and neonatal pharmacogenomics: a review of current literature

• Central Nervous System disease in pregnancy
  • Pharmacotherapy for Mood Disorders in Pregnancy>
  • Expert recommendations to personalization of medical approaches in treatment of multiple sclerosis: an overview of family planning and pregnancy
  • Anesthetic management for parturients with neurological disorders

• Cardiac disease & Hypertension in pregnancy
  • Hypertension in Pregnancy: Practical Concerns with Sue Ranasinghe
  • A Comprehensive Review of Hypertension in Pregnancy
  • Pulmonary arterial hypertension
  • Pregnancy Complicated by Valvular Heart Disease: An Update

• Pre-eclampsia, Eclampsia, & HELLP
  • Corticosteroids for HELLP (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelets) syndrome in pregnancy
  • Pre-eclampsia and cardiovascular disease
  • Unravelling the theories of pre-eclampsia: are the protective pathways the new paradigm?
  • Obstetric Anesthesia Problem-Based Learning Discussions: Care of the Parturient with Pre-eclampsia

• Pulmonary disease in pregnancy
  • Asthma Management in Pregnancy
  • Pulmonary arterial hypertension

• Endocrinological disease in pregnancy
  • Guidelines of the American Thyroid Association for the Diagnosis and Management of Thyroid Disease During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Managing Preexisting Diabetes for Pregnancy

• Liver Disease in Pregnancy
  • Liver diseases in pregnancy: Diseases not unique to pregnancy

• Autoimmune disease in pregnancy
  • Is pregnancy a risk factor for rheumatic autoimmune diseases?
  • Expert recommendations to personalization of medical approaches in treatment of multiple sclerosis: an overview of family planning and pregnancy
  • Family planning and pregnancy issues for women with systemic inflammatory diseases: patient and physician perspectives

• HIV, Other Infections, & Pregnancy
  • Incident HIV during Pregnancy and Postpartum and Risk of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  • Reducing stillbirths: prevention and management of medical disorders and infections during pregnancy

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• Normal labor & delivery
  • Active versus expectant management for women in the third stage of labour
  • Guidelines for Physical Activity during Pregnancy: Comparisons From Around the World
  • Changes in labor patterns over 50 years

• Fetal Heart Tone Monitoring
  • The Future of Fetal Monitoring
  • ACOG Practice Bulletin No. 106: Intrapartum fetal heart rate monitoring: nomenclature, interpretation, and general management principles

• Abnormal Placentation and Uterine Inversion
  • Contemporary issues in the management of abnormal placentation during pregnancy in developing nations: An Indian perspective
  • Epidemiology, Etiology, Diagnosis, and Management of Placenta Accreta
  • Total and acute uterine inversion after delivery: a case report

• Maternal Hemorrhage: Intrapartum and Postpartum
  • Preparing for Obstetric Hemorrhage with Rakesh Vadhera

• Maternal Mortality
  • Maternal Mortality with Dr. Cynthia Wong

• External Cephalic Version
  • Interventions for helping to turn term breech babies to head first presentation when using external cephalic version

• Maternal Fever
  • Review: Hyperthermia and fever during pregnancy
  • Antibiotic prophylaxis versus no prophylaxis for preventing infection after cesarean section

• Maternal cardiac arrest and perimortem cesarean delivery
  • Maternal Mortality with Dr. Cynthia Wong
  • Maternal Cardiac Arrest and Intralipid Rescue with Dr. Rebecca Minehart
  • Obstetric Anesthesia Problem-Based Learning Discussions: Cognitive Aids in Obstetric Crises

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• Local anesthetics: pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and appropriate dose considerations for the obstetric patient
  • Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity with Robert D’Angelo
  • Virtual Grand Rounds in Obstetric Anesthesia

• Neuraxial Anesthesia for Labor and Delivery: How to Make it Safe and Effective (Including “Redoses”)
  • Effect of neuraxial analgesia on labor progress, labor outcome, and fetal heart rate
    • Advances in labor analgesia
    • Epidural analgesia for labor: Current techniques
    • Neuraxial analgesia: a review of its effects on the outcome and duration of labor
    • Neurologic complications of spinal and epidural anesthesia

• Anticoagulation and Hypercoagulability in the peripartum period
  • New Measures of Coagulation with Dr. Michael Froelich

• Anesthetic Considerations for Multiple Gestation, Trial of Labor after Cesarean Delivery, and Vaginal Birth after Cesarean Delivery
  • Delivery After Prior Cesarean: Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
  • Contemporary Cesarean Delivery Practice in the United States

• Alternative methods of labor analgesia
  • Advances in labor analgesia

• Fasting for the laboring patient
  • Virtual Grand Rounds in Obstetric Anesthesia

• Vasopressors in the obstetric patient
  • Virtual Grand Rounds in Obstetric Anesthesia
  • Pharmacology of the Placenta
  • Vasopressors in obstetric anesthesia: A current perspective

• Obesity & Obstetric Anesthesia
  • The Growing Obesity Epidemic: Challenges for the Anesthesia Provider with Dr. Manuel C. Vallejo
  • Obesity & Labor Analgesia with Libby Ellinas
  • Anesthetic Consideration in the Obese Parturient with Jennifer Hofer
  • Maternal body mass index and the risk of fetal death, stillbirth, and infant death: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  • Obstetric Anesthesia Problem-Based Learning Discussions: The Morbidly Obese Parturient: Comorbidities, Complications and Considerations

• Rarities: High spinal, total spinal, and amniotic fluid embolism
  • Amniotic Fluid Embolism: An Evidence-Based Review
  • Complications in Spinal Anaesthesia
  • Neurologic complications of spinal and epidural anesthesia

• In Utero Surgery
  • Anesthesia For In Utero Repair of Myelomeningocele
  • Anesthesia for fetoscopic intervention

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• Anaesthetic challenges and management during pregnancy: Strategies revisited
• Maternal postoperative complications after nonobstetric antenatal surgery
• Abdominal Surgery in Pregnancy—an Interdisciplinary Challenge
• Electroconvulsive therapy during pregnancy: a systematic review of case studies
• Obstetric Anesthesia Problem-Based Learning Discussions: Non-Obstetric Surgery During Pregnancy

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• Application of legal principles and medical ethics: multifetal pregnancy and fetal reduction
• Refusal of blood transfusion by Jehovah’s Witness women: a survey of current management in obstetric and gynaecological practice in the UK
• Jehovah’s Witness patients presenting with ruptured ectopic pregnancies: two case reports

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• Cognitive aids
  • Featured OB Problem-Based Learning Discussion: Cognitive Aids in Obstetric Crises

• Teamwork on OB
  • Virtual Grand Rounds in Obstetric Anesthesia
  • Current Status of Obstetric Anaesthesia: Improving Satisfaction and Safety
  • Reducing errors in health care
  • Simulation-based crisis team training for multidisciplinary obstetric providers

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• Neonatal resuscitation guidelines update: A case-based review
• Neonatal resuscitation in the delivery room

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• Postpartum Neurological Complications
  • Neurologic Complications in Obstetrics with Weike Tao
  • Neurologic Complications in Obstetric Anesthesia with Dr. Mark Zakowski
  • Acute Neurological Issues in Pregnancy and the Peripartum

• Evaluation and management of peripartum headache
  • Postdural Puncture Headache
  • Predictors of Headache Before, During, and After Pregnancy: A Cohort Study

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