Maternal Morbidity, Mortality, and Risk Assessment

Anesthesiology Clinics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 197-230

  Wali, Ashutosh ^a   Suresh, Maya S ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; CARBOPROST; CLOPIDOGREL; DESMOPRESSIN; ENOXAPARIN; HEPARIN; HYDRALAZINE; INTRALIPID; LABETALOL; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; METHYLERGOMETRINE; MISOPROSTOL; NICARDIPINE; OXYTOCIN; RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A; TICLOPIDINE; WARFARIN;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ADJUVANT THERAPY; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONVULSION; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DELIVERY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EXTUBATION; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYSTERECTOMY; JET VENTILATION; LABOR; LARYNGEAL MASK; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; OBESITY; OBSTETRIC HEMORRHAGE; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK REDUCTION; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRACHEOTOMY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; UTERINE ATONY; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PREGNANCY-INDUCED; MATERNAL MORTALITY; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 40049107622     PISSN: 19322275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anclin.2007.12.005     Document Type: Review

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