Emergency management of eclampsia and severe pre-eclampsia

Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 361-368

  Lew, Martin ^a   Klonis, Evangelos ^a  

^a MAROONDAH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eclampsia; Hypertension; Magnesium; Pre eclampsia; Pregnancy; Seizures

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CHLORPROMAZINE; DIAZEPAM; DIAZOXIDE; GLUCONATE CALCIUM; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYDRALAZINE; INFUSION FLUID; ISRADIPINE; KETANSERIN; LABETALOL; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; NIFEDIPINE; NIMODIPINE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PETHIDINE; PHENYTOIN; PLASMA SUBSTITUTE; URAPIDIL;

ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLOID; CONFUSION; CONSULTATION; CYANIDE POISONING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DROWSINESS; DRUG CHOICE; ECLAMPSIA; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FLUSHING; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOREFLEXIA; HYPOTENSION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SKIN TINGLING; TACHYCARDIA; THIRST; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERTIGO; VOMITING;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; ECLAMPSIA; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; MAGNESIUM; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0041356932     PISSN: 10356851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-2026.2003.00475.x     Document Type: Review

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