Infection in obstetric critical care

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 865-883

  Paruk, Fathima ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

critical care; infection; maternal outcome; sepsis; septic shock; severe sepsis

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CORTICOSTEROID; DROTRECOGIN; FLUDROCORTISONE; HEPARIN; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; MACROLIDE; TETRACYCLINE;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CATHETER INFECTION; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DELIVERY; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INSULIN TREATMENT; INTENSIVE CARE; MALARIA; MATERNAL MORTALITY; OBSTETRIC CARE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

CRITICAL CARE; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; SEPSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

EID: 50949104527     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2008.06.011     Document Type: Review

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