Cardiac arrest in pregnancy: Increasing use of perimortem caesarean section due to emergency skills training?

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 282-287

  Dijkman, A ^a   Huisman, C M A ^b   Smit, M ^b   Schutte, J M ^c   Zwart, J J ^b   Van Roosmalen, J J ^b,d   Oepkes, D ^b  

^a SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics ^*  (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Critical care; Perimortem caesarean section; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNION FLUID EMBOLISM; ANAMNESIS; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EPILEPSY; FATALITY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART ARREST; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OBSTETRIC EMERGENCY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIMORTEM CAESAREAN SECTION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SMOKING; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLEEN INJURY; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; SURGICAL TRAINING; SURVIVOR;

ADULT; ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT; APGAR SCORE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CESAREAN SECTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EMERGENCIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL AGE; NETHERLANDS; OBSTETRICS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74549213654     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2009.02461.x     Document Type: Article

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