Obstetric admissions to the intensive care unit

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1394-1399

  Anwari, Jamil S ^a   Butt, Adil A ^a   Al Dar, Mohammed A ^a  

^a The General Directorate of Armed Forces Health Services   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CEFUROXIME; DOPAMINE; ERGOMETRINE; HYDRALAZINE; INOTROPIC AGENT; LABETALOL; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; METRONIDAZOLE; NORADRENALIN; OXYTOCIN; PROSTAGLANDIN;

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CESAREAN SECTION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEATH; DELIVERY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMITTENT POSITIVE PRESSURE VENTILATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MEDICAL RECORD; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OBSTETRIC HEMORRHAGE; PARITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; PUERPERIUM; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SAUDI ARABIA; SEPTIC SHOCK; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAUDI ARABIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 7244232899     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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