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Obstetric Module
Volume 13

Obstetric emergencies

Edited by

Dr María Fernanda Escobar Vidarte
High Complexity Obstetric Unit, Department of Obstetrics
and Gynecology, Fundación Valle del Lili, Cali, Colombia

Chapters

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Epidemiology of Extreme Maternal Morbidity and Maternal Mortality

Juan Andres Pérez-Wulff, Daniel Márquez and Carlos Lugo-León

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Obstetric Intensive Care Unit: Impact in Maternal Mortality

Gamunu Ratnayake, Galina Fastovets and Vinod Patil

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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Pregnant Woman

Alpesh Gandhi and Amita Gandhi

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Intrauterine Fetal Resuscitation

Catalina María Valencia, María Fernanda Escobar, Juan Sebastian Barona, José Andrés Poblete and Juan Pedro Kusanovic

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Diagnosis and Management of Shock in Postpartum Hemorrhage

Mila Mehdi and Edwin Chandraharan

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Non-conservative and Conservative Surgical Management of PPH

Gabriel Costa Osanan, Rafael Cortes Charry and Álvaro Luiz Lage Alves

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Non-surgical Approaches to Refractory PPH

María Fernanda Escobar, María A Zambrano, Isabella Ramos and Suellen Miller

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Evaluation and Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage: Hemostatic Reanimation

Juan Manuel Burgos Luna and Maria Fernanda Escobar

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Recognition of Maternal Sepsis

Maria Fernanda Escobar, Juan Pedro Kusanovic and Maria Paula Echavarria

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Pulmonary Embolism during Pregnancy

Jose Rojas-Suarez and Camilo Bello-Muñoz

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Acute Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) during Pregnancy

Stephen E Lapinsky and Jose Rojas-Suarez

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Trauma in the Pregnant Patient: Which Concepts have Changed?

Juan Carlos Gallego, Kelly Johana Gutiérrez, Daniela Torres Hernández, Daniela Nasner and María Fernanda Escobar

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Obstetric Intensive Care Unit: What Is The Concept? OCCU: Minimum Recommendations

Eduard J Langenegger and David R Hall

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Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy

Mary C Tolcher, Peter Ermis and Manisha Gandhi