Cardiac Critical Illness is a volume in the Critical Care Obstetrics series. It's a novel reference to educate physicians, nurses, and all allied healthcare personnel caring for pregnant women with various health compromises specific to cardiac complications. The chapters reflect the growing scope of critical care obstetrics and the increasing importance and recognition of the hospital structure's field. All intensivists, regardless of primary discipline, must possess a core set of critical care skills that allow them to manage critically ill patients. The authors have gathered the best evidence-based material explicitly focused on cardiac scenarios. This volume presents cardiac medical-surgical complications that any patient can present during and post-partem, such as Arrhythmias, Endocarditis, Cardiogenic Shock, heart failure and more. - Provides obstetric concepts with updated knowledge of Cardiovascular changes in pregnancy - Offers best practice approaches and management of potential serious conditions that may result in cardiac surgery - Explores the use, effects, and management of drugs in the cardiovascular system during pregnant - Includes chapters written by authors with extensive clinical experience in critical obstetric care