Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Pharyngeal Wall Collapsibility

Communications to the Editor made of an obstetric patient in this article. As an intensivist who also, coincidentally, happens to deliver pregnant patients, as well as having a strong interest in the care of the obstetrically ill critically ill patient, I would be willing to develop a registry of obstetric patients who develop a critical illness. Included in the data would be the category of critical care diagnosis, such as respiratory failure, eclampsia, cardiac arrest, or miscellaneous (ie, the procedures performed of a critical care nature such as intubation, Swan-Canz catheterization, arterial line, as well as the obstetric procedures such as caesarian-section, dilitation, and curettage, etc.) Of course, demographic data such as age, race, gravida, para, week of pregnancy, size of off-spring, maternal/fetal outcome, all would be germane to this registry. For those readers of Chest who are interested in such a registry, please feel free to forward discharge summaries (without names of patients if desired) with all data incorporated into it. My address is St. Mary’s FP Center, 2243 N Prospect, Milwaukee, WI 53202.