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Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 8/2019

01-08-2019 | Eclampsia | What's New in Intensive Care

Point-of-care ultrasound in the critically ill pregnant or postpartum patient: what every intensivist should know

Authors: Pablo Blanco, Anselmo Abdo-Cuza

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 8/2019

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Pregnant and postpartum women needing intensive care account for a low proportion of admissions to the intensive care unit (ICU), approaching one ICU admission for every 370 deliveries [1]. The most common causes requiring critical care are hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and obstetric hemorrhage [1, 2], and the majority of ICU admissions occur in the puerperium [1]. …
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Metadata
Title
Point-of-care ultrasound in the critically ill pregnant or postpartum patient: what every intensivist should know
Authors
Pablo Blanco
Anselmo Abdo-Cuza
Publication date
01-08-2019
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 8/2019
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-019-05682-2

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