The pregnant trauma patient

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 167-180

  Weinberg, L ^a   Steele, R G ^a,b,c   Pugh, R ^a   Higgins, S ^a,d   Herbert, M ^a,e   Story, D ^a,d  

^a AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^b Royal Women's Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AINTREE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Pregnancy; Resuscitation; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANALGESIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; EPHEDRINE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; KETAMINE; METARAMINOL; MIDAZOLAM; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; NIFEDIPINE; NITROUS OXIDE; OPIATE; OXYTOCIC AGENT; PHENYLEPHRINE; PROPOFOL; RHESUS D ANTIBODY; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION; ROCURONIUM; SEDATIVE AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUXAMETHONIUM; THIOPENTAL; UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ACIDOSIS; ANESTHESIST; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG PENETRATION; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS; FETUS DISTRESS; FETUS HYPOXIA; FETUS MORTALITY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOCAPNIA; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NEWBORN DISEASE; OXYGENATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL CARE; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; TEAMWORK; TRAUMATOLOGY; UTERUS BLEEDING; UTERUS RUPTURE;

EID: 17144427001     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x0503300204     Document Type: Review

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