Welcome to critical care obstetrics we are a international group committed to the prevention early identification and treatment of severe morbidities and or complications during the pregnancy and the postpartum period in order to minimize their impact to the mother her child her family and her community. Critical care obstetrics sixth edition editors jeffrey p phelan luis d pacheco michael r foley george r saade gary a dildy michael a belfort basic critical care clinical and surgical principles chapter 1 no epidemiology of critical illness in pregnancy pages 1 15 cande v ananth . The society for maternal and fetal medicine together with banner university medical center has incorporated an introduction to critical care ultrasonography among other critical care skills airway management intraosseous line placement in their annual critical care in obstetrics course41 point of care ultrasound represents a familiar tool for obstetric providers with novel and potentially powerful applications when used to evaluate maternal anatomy associated with commonly diagnosed . Now in its sixth edition critical care obstetrics offers an authoritative guide to what might go seriously wrong with a pregnancy and delivery and explains how to manage grave complications written by an international panel of experts this updated and revised edition contains the most recent advances in the field as well as recommendations for treating common complications such as bleeding thrombosis trauma acute infection airway problems and drug reactions in a pregnant patient