Amniotic Fluid Embolism

Anesthesiology Clinics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 609-621

  Kissko, John M ^a   Gaiser, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amniotic fluid embolism; Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy; Right heart failure; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; ARACHIDONIC ACID; BRADYKININ; BUPIVACAINE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CAMOSTAT MESILATE; COMPLEMENT; COPROPORPHYRIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; ENDOTHELIN; FIBRONECTIN; HISTAMINE; INTRALIPID; LEUKOTRIENE; MILRINONE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE; NORADRENALIN; OXYTOCIN; PROSTACYCLIN; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 1; STEROID; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR; THROMBOPLASTIN; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRYPTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; ZINC COPROPORPHYRIN 1;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AMNION FLUID; AMNION FLUID EMBOLISM; ANAPHYLAXIS; AUTOPSY; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CESAREAN SECTION; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; COUNTERPULSATION; CRYOPRECIPITATE; CYANOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPNEA; ECLAMPSIA; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FETUS DISTRESS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART ARREST; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEMODIAFILTRATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXEMIA; INCIDENCE; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; INTRAAORTIC BALLOON COUNTERPULSATION; INTRAAORTIC BALLOON PUMP; LABORATORY TEST; LACERATION; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDIATOR; MULTIPARA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NONHUMAN; OBSTETRIC HEMORRHAGE; OXYGENATION; PARESTHESIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PLACENTA PREVIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHOCK; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; SYMPTOM; TELEMETRY; THORAX PAIN; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; TISSUE PERFUSION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERINE CERVIX LACERATION; UTERUS CONTRACTION; UTERUS RUPTURE; VAGINA BLEEDING;

EID: 84887200530     PISSN: 19322275     EISSN: 22103538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anclin.2013.03.005     Document Type: Review

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