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.