• The on-call consultant obstetrician should be told about all sick pregnant women in
hospital even if they have a medical problem and are admitted to a medical bed.• The early …

This is the second Report in which a summary chapter has been written especially for
emergency medicine clinicians. Once again, a consultant in emergency medicine has …

Three-quarters of maternal deaths are in women with coexisting medical complications. It
can be challenging to differentiate symptoms of normal pregnancy from pathological …

Background Every day, about 830 women die worldwide from preventable causes related to
pregnancy and childbirth. Obstetric early warning scores have been proposed as a potential …

This review of the eighth report of the United Kingdom Enquiries into Maternal Deaths,
Saving Mothers' Lives, summarizes data collected by the Centre for Maternal and Child …

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The variety of obstetric emergencies that can present to the obstetrician is vast, and includes
acute medical and surgical as well as obstetric conditions. Many such emergencies …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of underlying maternal morbidities on the odds of
maternal death during delivery hospitalization. METHODS: We used data that linked birth …

The burden posed by severe morbidity and mortality during pregnancy and childbirth in the
developed world has long been overlooked, and prevention has been neglected despite its …

Obstetric emergencies occur in a significant minority of otherwise normal pregnancies. Swift
diagnosis and rapid intervention will result in good outcomes. Most obstetric emergency …