Key result
This article reviews life-threatening obstetric emergencies that require timely recognition, appropriate resource allocation, and often intensive care unit admission to prevent significant morbidity.
Why the study?
Certain obstetric complications can be life-threatening to both mother and fetus, requiring timely recognition, appropriate resource allocation, and often intensive care unit admission.
This article provides a review of life-threatening obstetric emergencies requiring intensive care and supportive management.
Highlights obstetric ICU preparedness needs; leaves open optimal protocol standardization for future trials.
Human gestation and birthing result in many deviations from usual physiology that are nonetheless normal to be seen. However, on occasion, certain complications in the obstetric patient can be life-threatening to both mother and fetus. Timely recognition of these disorders and allocation of the appropriate resources are especially important. These conditions often require an intensive care unit admission for closer monitoring and supportive care. They can affect an array of physiological systems and can lead to significant morbidity. Such complications are discussed in greater detail in this article.
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Baltaji et al. (2022) conducted a review in Obstetric emergencies. This article reviews life-threatening obstetric emergencies that require timely recognition, appropriate resource allocation, and often intensive care unit admission to prevent significant morbidity.
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