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May 26, 2004Critical Care Medicine

Prognostic factors in obstetric patients admitted to an Indian intensive care unit*

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Population

453 obstetric patients in a multidisciplinary intensive care unit of a public hospital in Mumbai, India…

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Cohort

Follow-up

Hospitalization/ICU stay

Authors

DKDilip R. KarnadElectrophysiologyVLVijay LapsiaIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiAKAnand KrishnanLincoln University College

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Overview

May inform strategies to improve prenatal care and expedite ICU admission in obstetric patients; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective confirmation.

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Population
453 obstetric patients (women admitted during pregnancy or 6 wks post-partum) in a multidisciplinary intensive care unit of a public hospital in Mumbai, India. Mean age 25.5 +/- 4.6 yrs, mean gestational age 31 wks.
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Outcome
Mortality rate and prognostic factorshard clinical

In obstetric patients admitted to an Indian ICU, mortality is high and strongly associated with multiple organ failure, lack of prenatal care, and delayed ICU admission.

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Karnad et al. (2004) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a70bf8a35aa2c282ce21078https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ccm.0000128549.72276.00
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