Pediatric and Obstetrical Anesthesia comprises the edited presentations of the 40th Annual Postgraduate Course in Anesthesiology, February 1995. The book reflects the most recent advances in the physiology, pharmacology and anesthetic management of patients with central nervous system disease. Subjects such as central nervous system trauma and brain protection are also dealt with. Obstetrical and pediatric patients constitute important and often challenging cases for the practicing anesthesiologist. This textbook is the thirteenth in a continuing series documenting the proceedings of the Postgraduate Course of the Department of Anesthesiology of the University of Utah School of Medicine.

Preface. Physiology Adaptation during Pregnancy; G.W. Ostheimer. Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy; S.L. Clark. Anesthesia for Severe Preeclampsia; C.P. Gibbs. Effects of Pregnancy on Local Anesthetic Action and Toxicity; M. Finster. Obstetric Emergencies; C.P. Gibbs. Anesthesia for Surgery in the Pregnant Surgical Patient; A.M. Malinov, J.W. Ostheimer (ed.). Fetal Considerations in the Critically Ill Obstetric Patient; J.P. Phelan, S.L. Clark (ed.). Does Epidural Analgesia Prolong Labor and Increase the Incidence of Instrumental or Operative Delivery? M. Finster. Anesthesia for the Inner-City Parturient; D.J. Birnbach. Aspiration: Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment; C.P. Gibbs. Combined Spinal/Epidural Anesthesia (CSE) for Labor and Delivery; D.J. Birnbach. Resuscitation of the Newborn; G.W. Ostheimer. Neonatal Physiology of Importance to the Anesthesiologist; F.A. Berry. Anesthesia for the Neonate: Emergent and Non-Emergent; J.M. Badgwell. Fasting and Premedication in Infants and Children; J. Lerman. Anesthesia for the Ex-Premature Infant; J.M. Badgwell. Management of the Difficult Pedriatric Airway; F.A. Berry. Muscle Relaxants in Infants and Children; D.R. Cook. New Inhalational Anesthetics in Infants and Children; J. Lerman. Stress Response in Pediatric Anesthesia; P.R. Hickey. Perioperative Fluid and Blood Volume Management in Infants and Children; D.R. Cook. Regional Anesthesia in the Pediatric Patient; L.J. Rice. Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting in Children; J. Lerman. An Update on Malignant Hyperthermia and Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy; F.A. Berry. Pediatric Outpatient Anesthesia; R.S. Hannallah. Anesthetic Considerations in Congenital Heart Disease; P.R. Hickey.Ketamine: From `Star Wars' to Dinosaur in 25 Years? L.J. Rice. Current Status of Intravenous Anesthesia in Children; R.S. Hannallah. Postoperative Pain Management in the Pediatric Patient; L.J. Rice.