Managing the risks of sepsis in pregnancy

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 583-595

  Bamfo, Jacqueline E A K ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

maternal morbidity; maternal mortality; quality improvement (QI); RADICAL framework; risk management; sepsis in pregnancy; septic shock

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFOTAXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ELECTROLYTE; GENTAMICIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LACTIC ACID; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TEICOPLANIN; UREA;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AMNIOCENTESIS; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDICITIS; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; AWARENESS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CESAREAN SECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DELIVERY; DRUG INDICATION; ETHNICITY; FETUS MONITORING; FEVER; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTENSIVE CARE; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MALARIA; MASTITIS; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; PANCREATITIS; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL INFECTION; REPRODUCTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SOCIAL STATUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SURGICAL INFECTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CERCLAGE; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINAL INJURY; WOUND INFECTION;

MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT (QI); RADICAL FRAMEWORK; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEPSIS IN PREGNANCY; SEPTIC SHOCK;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PATIENT SAFETY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RISK FACTORS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEPSIS;

EID: 84880036932     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: 15321932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2013.04.003     Document Type: Article

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