Sepsis in obstetrics
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Sepsis in obstetrics and the role of the anaesthetist.
Sepsis in pregnancy and the puerperium remains a significant cause of maternal mortality and morbidity worldwide. Major morbidity arising as a result of obstetric sepsis includes fetal demise, organ failure, chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, chronic pelvic pain, bilateral tubal occlusion and infertility. Early recognition and timely response are key to ensuring good outcome. This review exam...
متن کاملThe Sepsis in Obstetrics Score: a model to identify risk of morbidity from sepsis in pregnancy.
OBJECTIVE We sought to design an emergency department sepsis scoring system to identify risk of intensive care unit (ICU) admission in pregnant and postpartum women. STUDY DESIGN The Sepsis in Obstetrics Score (S.O.S.) was created by modifying validated scoring systems in accordance with recognized physiologic changes of pregnancy. The S.O.S. was applied to a retrospective cohort of pregnant ...
متن کاملImages in infectious diseases in obstetrics and gynecology. Lethal sepsis due to traditional healing.
An 18-year-old girl was brought to the emergency unit of the Kalafong Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa. Twenty-four hours earlier she had been treated by a nonmedical healer in her village with intrauterine injections of a fluid derived from the stools of pregnant cows, the intention of which was to restore her fertility. Soon afterwards, she developed increasing lower abdominal pains and fai...
متن کاملGeneral Obstetrics and Gynecology: Obstetrics
Objective: We tested if fetal pulse oximetry in addition to electronic fetal monitoring (CTG) and scalp blood sampling improves the accuracy of fetal assessment and allows safe reduction of operative deliveries ( 50%) and scalp blood sampling ( 50%) performed because of nonreassuring fetal status. Study design: A randomized controlled trial was conducted in 146 patients with term pregnancies in...
متن کاملObstetrics
The prevention and treatment of post-partum hemorrhage is a subject of never-failing interest to the practitioner, and in view of the sudden and frequently fatal catastrophe which may ensue as the result of its occurrence, every attempt to suggest new or improved methods for either its prevention or cure demands careful examination. Stanmore Bishop,1 as the result of an article on this subject,...
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عنوان ژورنال: BJA Education
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2058-5349
DOI: 10.1093/bjaceaccp/mku062