Background and Objectives. Critically ill obstetric patients are a particularly unique cohort for the intensivist. The objective of this study was to review the indications for admission, demographics, clinical characteristics, and outcomes of obstetric patients admitted to intensive care unit of a medical college hospital in southern India and to identify conditions associated with maternal mo...

Near-miss cases in life-threatening obstetric patients occurring over a one year period are analysed retrospectively with regards to morbidity measured in terms of hospital stay, utilisation of high dependency ward and intensive care beds and adequacy of clinical management. One-hundred and twenty two cases occurred among 9932 deliveries. Massive obstetric haemorrhage (54.2%) and hypertensive d...

objective: to study the association between social, demographic, cultural and maternal care practice variables and obstetric fistula status in ethiopia. materials and methods: the most recent ethiopia demographic and health survey conducted in 2005 is used to study the association between social, demographic, cultural and maternal care practice and obstetric fistula. we use both univariate and ...

PURPOSE To compare obstetric outcomes of induced preterm twin births (under 32 weeks gestation) with those spontaneously conceived. METHODS Prospective study of twin pregnancies (25 induced and 157 spontaneously conceived) developed over a period of 16 years in a tertiary obstetric center. Demographic factors, obstetric complications, gestational age at delivery, mode of delivery, birth weigh...

BACKGROUND Little is known about how anxiety disorders affect pregnancy outcomes. Therefore we investigated the impact of one anxiety disorder, blood- and injection phobia, on obstetric and neonatal outcomes. METHODS From a population-based prospectively collected cohort we compared an index group of 110 women with blood- and injection phobia with a control group of 220 women. Standardized me...

Inherited or acquired thrombophilias have been largely explored as a cause of pregnancy complications. However, pathogenesis of obstetric complications, as fetal loss and pregnancy-related hypertensive disorders is still partly unexplained. Recently, a common haplotype (M2) within the annexin A5 (ANXA5) gene has been described as a risk factor in recurrent fetal losses (RFL). It has been demons...

OBJECTIVE To report stillbirth and early neonatal mortality and to quantify the relative importance of different primary obstetric causes of perinatal mortality in 171 perinatal deaths from 7993 pregnancies that ended after 28 weeks in nulliparous women. METHODS A review of all stillbirths and early newborn deaths reported in the WHO calcium supplementation trial for the prevention of pre-ecl...

BACKGROUND Neurologic dysfunction, coma, and seizures are common in obstetric patients in the intensive care unit. OBJECTIVE To review common neurologic disorders resulting in critical illness in pregnancy. REVIEW Obstetric disorders causing coma and seizures include eclampsia, acute fatty liver of pregnancy, and amniotic fluid embolism. Preexisting disorders such as epilepsy may worsen in ...

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...

BACKGROUND There has been little research into the health of infants of women with psychotic disorders. AIMS To investigate the antenatal care of mothers with a history of psychotic disorders, obstetric outcomes and the subsequent health of their babies. METHOD A matched, controlled cohort study was carried out using the General Practice Research Database. Women with a history of a psychoti...