The obstetric patient poses exceptional challenges in the intensive care unit. Knowledge of the physiologic changes of pregnancy and specific pregnancy-related disorders is necessary for optimal management. Intensive care unit diagnoses may include preeclampsia, including the HELLP syndrome, pulmonary embolic disease, amniotic fluid embolism, status asthmaticus, respiratory infection, the acute...

Objective. To assess the effectiveness of achieving and maintaining control bronchial asthma in children during dynamic observation, depending on characteristics onset disease.
 Material methods. In order to study peculiarities course controllability children, alternative disease, 319 were comprehensively examined by "experience-control" method parallel groups using a simple random sample ...

chospasm and edema of the bronchial wall. The problem of plugs is compounded by the invariably present tachypnea, resulting in respiratory loss of fluids. Dehydration produces tenacious, inspissated plugs, which are difficult to remove via the cough mechanism. Messer et al,1° in a large autopsy series, reported a 97 percent incidence of abnormal bronchial contents (mucous, purulent exudate, or ...

A 47-year-old woman presented to the emergency department complaining of 2 days of increasing shortness of breath despite escalating use of albuterol by metered-dose inhaler (MDI). She had a long history of bronchial asthma, including one hospital admission for status asthmaticus with respiratory failure requiring intubation and ventilatory support. That hospitalization had been complicated by ...