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Respiratory Critical Illness During Pregnancy

Critical Care in Obstetrics

  • 1st Edition - August 1, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Jorge Hidalgo, Carlos Montufar-Rueda, Javier Perez-Fernandez
  • Language: English

Respiratory Critical Illness During Pregnancy: Critical Care in Obstetrics, a volume in the Critical Care Obstetrics series, provides a novel reference for healthcare perso… Read more

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Description

Respiratory Critical Illness During Pregnancy: Critical Care in Obstetrics, a volume in the Critical Care Obstetrics series, provides a novel reference for healthcare personnel caring for pregnant women with various health compromises specific to respiratory complications. The book's chapters reflect the growing scope of critical care obstetrics and the increasing importance and recognition of the hospital structure's field, covering the most common respiratory complications that any patient can present during pregnancy, including Asthma, Pulmonary Hypertension and Infection, Cystic Fibrosis, Sleep Disorders, Respiratory failure and more.

All intensivists, regardless of primary discipline, must possess a core set of critical care skills that allow them to manage critically ill patients. Here, the authors have gathered the best evidence-based material on respiratory scenarios.

Key features

  • Includes obstetric concepts with updated knowledge of respiratory changes in pregnancy
  • Offers best practice approaches and management of potential serious conditions that may result in respiratory failure
  • Explores the use, effects, and management of drugs in the respiratory system during pregnancy
  • Includes chapters written by authors with extensive clinical experience in critical obstetric care

Readership

Students/Clinicians, Critical Obstetrics Sub Specialist Physicians, Specialists in Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine Specialists, Resident Physicians of the aforementioned specialties, Medical students of medicine
60 % Sub specialists
20 % Specialists
20 % Residents and Students

Table of contents

1. Pulmonary Assessment during pregnancy

2. Pregnancy-Induced respiratory changes3

3. Maternal gas physiology

4. Severe Acute Asthma

5. Thrombo-embolic disease during pregnancy

6. Amniotic Fluid Embolism syndrome

7. Pulmonary Hypertension

8. Pulmonary Infection in Pregnancy

9. Cystic Fibrosis in Pregnancy

10. Restrictive Lung disease in Pregnancy

11. Sickle Chest Syndrome in Pregnancy

12. Sleep-Disorders Breathing in pregnancy

13. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Pregnancy

14. Dyspnea of Pregnancy

15. Pregnancy-associated pulmonary Edema

16. Radiological imaging of the Chest in pregnancy

17. Respiratory Drug Therapy in Pregnancy

18. Biological and immunosuppressive respiratory therapy in pregnancy

19. Oxygen therapy during pregnancy

20. Airway Management during pregnancy

21. Mechanical Ventilation in Pregnancy

22. ECMO during pregnancy

23. Bedside Ultrasound during pregnancy

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 1, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Jorge Hidalgo

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.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Head, Division of Critical care, Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, Belize, Central America, Belize

CM

Carlos Montufar-Rueda

Dr. Carlos Montufar-Rueda 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-Rueda 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-Rueda has participated in countless international conferences as an exhibitor from 1997 to date.
Affiliations and expertise
Head of the Obstetrics Intensive Care Unit, Dr. Arnulfo Arias M Hospital Complex, Panama City, Panama

JP

Javier Perez-Fernandez

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.
Affiliations and expertise
Medical Director of the Critical Care Services at Baptist Hospital of Miami, Miami, FL, USA