Intensive care in obstetrics: An evidence-based review

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 195, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 673-689

  Martin, Stephanie R ^a   Foley, Michael R ^b  

^a Banner Desert Medical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED PROTEIN C; ADENOSINE; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBIN III; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETAMETHASONE; CORTICOSTEROID; DIGOXIN; DILTIAZEM; DIURETIC AGENT; FLUDROCORTISONE; GENTAMICIN; HEPARIN; HYDROCORTISONE; INOTROPIC AGENT; INSULIN; LIDOCAINE; PENICILLIN G; PROCAINAMIDE; QUINIDINE; STEROID; TISSUE FACTOR PATHWAY INHIBITOR; UNINDEXED DRUG; UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT; VANCOMYCIN; VASODILATOR AGENT; WARFARIN;

ADRENAL SUPPRESSION; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AMNION FLUID EMBOLISM; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLEEDING; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG EDEMA; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; OBSTETRIC CARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; APACHE; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; EMBOLISM, AMNIOTIC FLUID; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INSULIN; INTENSIVE CARE; LUNG DISEASES; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROTEIN C; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 33747877002     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2006.05.042     Document Type: Article

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