Saving Mothers' Lives: The 2006-8 anaesthesia perspective

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 119-122

  Wong, C A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AMNION FLUID EMBOLISM; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ASEPSIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; ECLAMPSIA; EMPYEMA; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MENINGITIS; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 79960525128     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aer222     Document Type: Editorial

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