Postpartum fever and shortness of breath

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 346, Issue 7896, 2013, Pages

  Morton, Adam ^a  

^a Mater Hospital   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; CREATININE; FIBRINOGEN; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTIC ACID; TROPONIN I;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADULT; BICARBONATE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART SOUND; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALAISE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NOTE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; PUERPERAL INFECTION; PULSE RATE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADULT; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL INFECTION; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TACHYCARDIA; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84874302095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f391     Document Type: Note

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