Obstetric intensive care at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town

SummaryIn one year 258 women (0-9 per cent of all patients delivering in the region) required obstetric intensive care. The prime reason for admission was gestational proteinuric hypertension and its complications (60 per cent). Overall forty-six per cent of the patients required invasive monitoring. Twenty-eight women required prolonged ventilation and were transferred to the main intensive care units. Seven women died.