Anesthesia and the Fetus integrates into one volume the multidisciplinary components of:

fetal development

fetal pharmacology

assessments of fetal and neonatal outcome

anesthesia and analgesia during pregnancy

anesthesia and analgesia during labor

ethics and law

Written by an internationally renowned group of clinicians and scientists, Anesthesia and the Fetus provides a contemporary guide and reference to the role of anesthesia, and the anesthesiologist, in protecting the mother and her unborn child during pregnancy.