Critical care in pregnancy-Is it different?

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 329-340

  Gaffney, Alan ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; Critical illness; Obstetrics; Pregnancy; Severe acute maternal morbidity

Indexed keywords

ATRACURIUM BESILATE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; DOBUTAMINE; ETOMIDATE; FUROSEMIDE; GADOLINIUM; HEPARIN; ILOPROST; KETAMINE; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; METOLAZONE; MILRINONE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE; PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM; SILDENAFIL; SPIRONOLACTONE; SUGAMMADEX; SUXAMETHONIUM; THIOPENTAL; VECURONIUM;

APACHE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG SAFETY; ECLAMPSIA; FETUS MONITORING; HEART FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANTILE HYPOTONIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTUBATION; IONIZING RADIATION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL ETHICS; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NONINVASIVE VENTILATION; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; OBSTETRIC PATIENT; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PROPOFOL INFUSION SYNDROME; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SEQUENTIAL ORGAN FAILURE ASSESSMENT SCORE; SIMPLIFIED ACUTE PHYSIOLOGY SCORE; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; FEMALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MORBIDITY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

CRITICAL CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MORBIDITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84908137262     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: 1558075X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2014.07.002     Document Type: Review

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