Life-threatening complications of pregnancy: Key issues for anaesthetists

Current Anaesthesia and Critical Care

Volumn 17, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 163-170

  Banks, Amelia ^a   Levy, David ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amniotic fluid embolism; Anaesthetics; Haemorrhage; Obstetrics; Pre eclampsia

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; ERGOMETRINE; ETOMIDATE; HYDRALAZINE; KETAMINE; LABETALOL; MAGNESIUM; MORPHINE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NIFEDIPINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; OXYGEN; OXYTOCIN; PHENYTOIN; PROSTACYCLIN; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA; REMIFENTANIL; STEROID; SUXAMETHONIUM; THIOPENTAL;

AMNION FLUID EMBOLISM; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRONCHOSPASM; CESAREAN SECTION; DELIVERY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG OVERDOSE; ECLAMPSIA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FATALITY; FETUS MORTALITY; FETUS OUTCOME; FLUSHING; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; HYPOXIA; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NAUSEA; OBSTETRIC HEMORRHAGE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESUSCITATION; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; THROMBOEMBOLISM; VOMITING;

EID: 33745819294     PISSN: 09537112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cacc.2006.02.003     Document Type: Article

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