- Email: [email protected]
Perinatal medicine
396
Book reviews
nance of electrolyte balance, shock therapy, postoperative disorders of the respiratory and circulatory system, the resuscitation of the newborn, drugs and the placental barrier, analgesic medication during labor and delivery, continuous epidural for childbirth. It is clear that such an encyclopedic approach does not allow the authors to exhaust their themes, but the text is therefore also accessible to the nonanesthesiologist; for those who want to extend their knowledge beyond the more general approach, the authors have referred to an extensive bibliography. What makes this fourth revised edition so attractive are the comments on recent points of interest in the field of anesthesiology, e.g. pollution of the environment by inhalational anesthetics, incidence of peroperative mortality due to anesthesiology, multidisciplinary approach in pain, electroanesthesia, acupuncture, monitoring devices, the organization of a department for experimental anesthesiology, disaster medicine, etc. This ‘Lehrbuch represents a standard work for the library. G. Adriaensens, Leuven
Perinatal Medicine G. Rooth and L.E. Bratteby (eds.)
Almqvist and Wiksell, Stockholm, 1977 (250 PP.) SW.Kr. 120.This book contains the proceedings of the 5th European Congress of Perinatal Medicine which was held
at Uppsala in June 1976; the contributors are all leaders in their particular field of perinatal medicine. The result is a superb and stimulating text containing papers in English which deal with subjects such as the socio-economic aspects of perinatal medicine, breech delivery, diabetes and pregnancy, continuous measurements in perinatal medicine, fetal breathing and growth, and new trends in fetal heart monitoring. With such a plethora of talent it would be invidious to pick out individual papers or sections for special mention as the universal standard is so high. It is perhaps disappointing that the discussion which such papers must have provoked is not reported, although one appreciates that this would have made the book longer and more costly, as well as adding very considerably to the task undertaken by the editors. The standard of editing is good, although it is disappointing to see minor mistakes such as an X-ray of a breech presentation being printed upside down. One also feels that there are occasions when the editors or their translator have so altered the original text that the meaning of the original author has been obscured. This is, however, a minor criticism and the editors are to be congratulated on producing such an informative and thought-provoking book so rapidly. The book is certainly essential reading for all those involved in perinatal medicine. I. Brosens, Leuven
Book reviews
nance of electrolyte balance, shock therapy, postoperative disorders of the respiratory and circulatory system, the resuscitation of the newborn, drugs and the placental barrier, analgesic medication during labor and delivery, continuous epidural for childbirth. It is clear that such an encyclopedic approach does not allow the authors to exhaust their themes, but the text is therefore also accessible to the nonanesthesiologist; for those who want to extend their knowledge beyond the more general approach, the authors have referred to an extensive bibliography. What makes this fourth revised edition so attractive are the comments on recent points of interest in the field of anesthesiology, e.g. pollution of the environment by inhalational anesthetics, incidence of peroperative mortality due to anesthesiology, multidisciplinary approach in pain, electroanesthesia, acupuncture, monitoring devices, the organization of a department for experimental anesthesiology, disaster medicine, etc. This ‘Lehrbuch represents a standard work for the library. G. Adriaensens, Leuven
Perinatal Medicine G. Rooth and L.E. Bratteby (eds.)
Almqvist and Wiksell, Stockholm, 1977 (250 PP.) SW.Kr. 120.This book contains the proceedings of the 5th European Congress of Perinatal Medicine which was held
at Uppsala in June 1976; the contributors are all leaders in their particular field of perinatal medicine. The result is a superb and stimulating text containing papers in English which deal with subjects such as the socio-economic aspects of perinatal medicine, breech delivery, diabetes and pregnancy, continuous measurements in perinatal medicine, fetal breathing and growth, and new trends in fetal heart monitoring. With such a plethora of talent it would be invidious to pick out individual papers or sections for special mention as the universal standard is so high. It is perhaps disappointing that the discussion which such papers must have provoked is not reported, although one appreciates that this would have made the book longer and more costly, as well as adding very considerably to the task undertaken by the editors. The standard of editing is good, although it is disappointing to see minor mistakes such as an X-ray of a breech presentation being printed upside down. One also feels that there are occasions when the editors or their translator have so altered the original text that the meaning of the original author has been obscured. This is, however, a minor criticism and the editors are to be congratulated on producing such an informative and thought-provoking book so rapidly. The book is certainly essential reading for all those involved in perinatal medicine. I. Brosens, Leuven