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CritiCal illness in pregnanCy
Critical illness in pregnancy increases maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. The critical illness can be related to pregnancy per se, or can be secondary to a concurrent medical illness. Early identification and appropriate management results in good outcomes with a short ICU stay. Late identification and delayed therapy results in poor maternal & fetal outcomes with development of multi...
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OBJECTIVES To provide an overview of the critical illnesses that afflict the pregnant patient. DESIGN A comprehensive review of the literature was performed with Pubmed Medline using medical subject headings of pregnancy, critical care, epidemiology, prognostic score, dyspnea, fever, and jaundice. RESULTS Although pregnant women constitute a small number of admissions to an intensive care u...
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Copyright © 2014 Massachusetts Medical Society. W eakness acquired in the intensive care unit (ICU) is caused by many different pathophysiological mechanisms that are not mutually exclusive. This is not surprising, given the diverse diseases that precipitate critical illness, the drugs used during its management, and the consequences of protracted immobility. Nonetheless, conceptualization of t...
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Critically ill obstetric patients are significantly different from the average patient admitted to the medical intensive care unit (ICU). They present a challenge to the critical care physician due to their unique physiology and the specific medical disorders that occur during pregnancy and the peripartum period. The physiologic changes that occur in the pregnant state in several systems, inclu...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1340-7988,1882-966X
DOI: 10.3918/jsicm.21.137