Obstetric and Gynecologic Emergencies

Contributors

CONSULTING EDITOR

RICHARD W. CARLSON, MD, PhD

Chairman Emeritus, Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Department of Medicine,
Maricopa Medical Center; Professor, University of Arizona College of Medicine; Professor,
Department of Medicine, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Phoenix, Arizona; Mayo
Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona

EDITORS

SUSAN E. DANTONI, MD, FACOG

OB Hospitalist, Surgical Director OB Family Practice Fellowship, Bellevue Women’s
Center/Ellis Hospital, Schenectady, New York; Clinical Assistant Professor, Albany
Medical College, Albany, New York

PETER J. PAPADAKOS, MD, FCCM, FAARC

Director of Critical Care Medicine; Professor Anesthesiology, Surgery, Neurology
and Neurosurgery; Department of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester School of
Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York

AUTHORS

NYIMA ALI, MD
Attending Staff Physician, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maricopa
Integrated Health System, District Medical Group, Phoenix, Arizona

STEPHEN J. BACAK, DO, MPH

Fellow and Clinical Instructor, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, University of Rochester
Medical Center, Rochester, New York

ARI BALOFSKY, MD
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester,
New York

RICHARD W. CARLSON, MD, PhD

Chairman Emeritus, Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Department of Medicine,
Maricopa Medical Center; Professor, University of Arizona College of Medicine; Professor,
Department of Medicine, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Phoenix, Arizona; Mayo
Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona

AHMAD CHEBBO, MD
Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona
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DEAN V. COONROD, MD, MPH

Attending Staff Physician and Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maricopa
Integrated Health System, District Medical Group; Executive Chair and Professor,
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Arizona College of Medicine,
Phoenix, Arizona
MAURICIO RUIZ CUERO, MD
Fellow, Neurocritical Care, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan
SUSAN E. DANTONI, MD, FACOG
OB Hospitalist, Surgical Director OB Family Practice Fellowship, Bellevue Women’s
Center/Ellis Hospital, Schenectady, New York; Clinical Assistant Professor, Albany
Medical College, Albany, New York
MAKSIM FEDARAU, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester Medical
Center, Rochester, New York
AMIE HOEFNAGEL, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
HUAYONG HU, MD
Department of Anesthesiology, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut
ANNA KAMINSKI, DO
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

MARCIN KARCZ, MD, MSc

Department of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester,
New York
CHRISTELLE KASSIS, MD
Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona

AMIE LUCIA, DO
Clinical Assistant Professor, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York
THOMAS R. McCORMICK, DMin
Department Bioethics and Humanities, Senior Lecturer Emeritus, University of
Washington, Seattle, Washington
MARIO MENK, MD
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité - University Medicine
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
COURTNEY OLSON-CHEN, MD
Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York
PETER J. PAPADAKOS, MD, FCCM, FAARC
Director of Critical Care Medicine; Professor Anesthesiology, Surgery, Neurology and
Neurosurgery; Department of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester School of
Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York

IOANA PASCA, MD
Department of Anesthesiology, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda,
California
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DAVID SCHWAIBERGER, MD
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité - University Medicine
Berlin, Berlin, Germany

NEIL S. SELIGMAN, MD, MS

Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York

LESLIE TAMURA, DO
Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona; Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park
Ridge, Illinois

SUSANNA TAN, MD
Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona

LORALEI L. THORNBURG, MD
Associate Professor, Fellowship Program Director, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine,
University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York

PANAYIOTIS N. VARELAS, MD, PhD

Division Head, Neurosciences Critical Care Services; Director, Neuro-Intensive Care Unit;
Professor, Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, Wayne State University,
Detroit, Michigan

ALBERT YU, DO
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York