Case scenario: Amniotic fluid embolism

Anesthesiology

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 186-192

  Dean, Laura S ^a   Rogers III, Raford P ^b   Harley, Russell A ^b   Hood, David D ^c  

^a FORSYTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; CHLOROPROCAINE; FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE; METHYLERGOMETRINE MALEATE; MIDAZOLAM; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYTOCIN; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA; SEVOFLURANE;

ADULT; AMNION FLUID EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DYSPNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FETUS HEART RATE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTUBATION; LABOR INDUCTION; LUNG EDEMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RESUSCITATION; SHOCK; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UTERINE ATONY;

ADULT; ANALGESIA, OBSTETRICAL; APGAR SCORE; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD SUBSTITUTES; CESAREAN SECTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMBOLISM, AMNIOTIC FLUID; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PLASMA; PREGNANCY; RESUSCITATION; SEIZURES; SHOCK; SURVIVAL;

EID: 84655170261     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e31823d2d99     Document Type: Article

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