RECENT GUIDELINES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF MATERNAL CARDIAC ARREST Introduction
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Management of cardiac arrest in pregnancy is an extremely challenging task in emergency cardiovascular care as it involves two lives, the mother and the foetus.The best hope of fetal survival is maternal survival. Out of hospital cardiac arrest management yields poor outcome. The optimal management requires the participation of teams which would include the obstetrical team, the anaesthesia and the neonatal team as well as the equipment for a peri-mortem caesarean section and neonatal resuscitation.
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