Aims of obstetric critical care management

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 775-799

  Price, Laura Claire ^a   Slack, Andrew ^b   Nelson Piercy, Catherine ^c  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

complications; critical care; high risk; intensive care; postpartum haemorrhage; pre eclampsia; pregnancy; thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED PROTEIN C; ADENOSINE; ALBUMIN; AMIODARONE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DIGOXIN; DILTIAZEM; DOBUTAMINE; DOPEXAMINE; EPHEDRINE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; GLUCOSE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HARTMANN SOLUTION; HYDRALAZINE; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; LEVOSIMENDAN; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; METARAMINOL; MILRINONE; OXYGEN; PHENYLEPHRINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASOACTIVE AGENT; VASODILATOR AGENT; VASOPRESSIN; VERAPAMIL;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ALLERGY; ANAMNESIS; AORTA BALLOON; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVERSION; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DELIRIUM; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY INTERVENTION; EDEMA; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FETUS MONITORING; FLUID THERAPY; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART OUTPUT; HEMODIALYSIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERCHLOREMIA; HYPERCHLOREMIC ACIDOSIS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE; LUNG CONGESTION; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; OBSTETRIC CARE; OBSTETRIC HEMORRHAGE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SHOCK; TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRAIN DISEASES; CRITICAL CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 50849142215     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2008.06.001     Document Type: Review

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