Perinatal Resources, Inc. 

A Not-For-Profit Medical Education Corporation

Perinatal Resources, Inc. proudly sponsors continuing medical education for obstetricians and gynecologists.

OB Anesthesia for Labor

Kathryn Zuspan, M.D.

Valley Anesthesiology Consultants, Stillwater, MN

Objectives:

Physiology, Pharmacology, and Options for Labor

• You should have an understanding of how the physiologic changes of pregnancy impact and alter your patient's anesthetic management.
• You should know which drugs used in your obstetric practice have the potential to interact adversely with drugs used for anesthesia and analgesia.
• You should gain knowledge of the analgesic options for laboring patients including labor spinals, labor epidurals, 'walking epidurals', patient-controlled epidurals (PCEA) and combined spinal-epidurals (CSE).
• You should gain insight into current controversies in OB Anesthesia, and the statements given by the national specialty organizations (ACOG, ASA) concerning these controversies. These include:  low molecular weight heparins and timing of neuraxial anesthesia, who can perform neuraxial techniques, can labor nurses assist in managing neuraxial analgesia and the effects of neuraxial analgesia on labor, the parturient and the neonate.

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