Saving mothers' lives: Reviewing maternal deaths to make motherhood safer: 20068: A review

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 127-132

  McClure, J H ^a   Cooper, G M ^b   Clutton Brock, T H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anaesthesia; Confidential Enquiry; critical care; maternal mortality, sepsis

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; DROTRECOGIN; ERGOMETRINE PLUS OXYTOCIN; INOTROPIC AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE; NORADRENALIN; OXYTOCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AMNION FLUID EMBOLISM; ANAESTHETIC DEATH; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; AORTA DISSECTION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIARRHEA; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DYSPNEA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECLAMPSIA AND PREECLAMPSIA; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS MOVEMENT; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LABOR STAGE 3; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; OBESITY; OBSTETRIC HEMORRHAGE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PERIPARTUM CARDIOMYOPATHY; PLACENTA ACCRETA; PLACENTA PREVIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; REVIEW; SEPTIC SHOCK; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SUDDEN DEATH; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; THORAX PAIN; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; UNITED KINGDOM; URINE VOLUME; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VOMITING;

EID: 79960483293     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aer192     Document Type: Review

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