Critical illness in pregnancy: an overview.

Scientific Reviews Critical illness in pregnancy: An overview

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...

An Overview of Hydrogen Sulfide Suicides Based on Police Data in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

The Relationship between Abuse during Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes: An Overview of Meta –Analysis

Background Violence against women is a social, legal and health problem that poses a threat to mother and child in pregnancy. The present overview was conducted to review of Meta-analysis that assessed the line between the abuse on mother during pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes. Materials and Methods: This study reviewed all published articles from January 1996 to March 2018 by searching Inter...

Clinical review: Special populations - critical illness and pregnancy

Critical illness is an uncommon but potentially devastating complication of pregnancy. The majority of pregnancy-related critical care admissions occur postpartum. Antenatally, the pregnant patient is more likely to be admitted with diseases non-specific to pregnancy, such as pneumonia. Pregnancy-specific diseases resulting in ICU admission include obstetric hemorrhage, pre-eclampsia/eclampsia,...

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...