Dear Colleagues,

It is with great pleasure and satisfaction that I communicate to you the upcoming Special Issue: "Recent Advances in Obstetric Anesthesiology: Part II", following the success of the first edition. Therefore, I would like to invite you to contribute to a second editorial project focused on a range of inter- and multidisciplinary topics in this exciting field.

Obstetric anesthesiologists play a vital role in safeguarding maternal safety and ensuring an optimal outcome for both the mother and fetus.  In recent years, we have witnessed significant advances in obstetric anesthesiology encompassing the whole field of perinatal care of obstetric patients. Innovations have emerged which have made labor analgesia safer and more effective, advances exist today in spinal and epidural techniques for operative deliveries, new treatments for hypotension associated with neuraxial blockade have been introduced, algorithms and guidelines have improved safety of general anesthesia in obstetrics. The aforementioned facts, along with tailored strategies and a systematic approach in postpartum hemorrhage management as well as improved education and the use of simulation have led to a considerable reduction in anesthesia-related morbidity and mortality.

The Special Issue aims to provide up-to-data data by presenting research on the sub-specialty of obstetric anesthesiology and to be a comprehensive aggregation of work performed by experts in the field, thus providing a valuable resource of knowledge for obstetric anesthesiologists worldwide. By providing the opportunity to publish a significant number of articles on this important issue in modern anesthesia practice, we hope we will be able to enhance the readers’ ability to appreciate recent advances in obstetric anesthesiology and augment their potential gain of knowledge. Therefore, this Special Issue encourages submissions on the current state-of-the-art but also on ongoing controversies related to the practice of obstetric anesthesiology.

I would therefore kindly invite health care professionals and researchers involved in the care of obstetric patients to address relevant topics and submit original research articles, reviews, meta-analyses or observational studies to the JCM in order to get published in this Special Issue after a thorough peer-review by experts in the field.

I am very much looking forward to receiving your submissions.

Prof. Dr. Kassiani Theodoraki
Guest Editor

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• obstetric anesthesia
• cesarean section
• labor pain
• labor analgesia
• epidural analgesia
• neuraxial block
• regional anesthesia
• spinal anesthesia
• combined spinal–epidural anesthesia
• hypotension

• Recent Advances in Obstetric Anesthesiology in Journal of Clinical Medicine (6 articles)