We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
from Section 3.9 - Obstetrics and Maternal Peripartum Complications
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2023
Key Learning Points
1. Pre-eclampsia is a major cause of mortality in developing countries. It remains a cause of significant morbidity and is a common reason for critical care admissions in the obstetric population in the UK.
2. Careful adherence to national guidelines on the treatment and prevention of pre-eclampsia should be followed when a patient is admitted to critical care and this requires a multidisciplinary approach.
3. Acute pulmonary oedema occurs in 3 per cent of patients with severe pre-eclampsia, and early diagnosis is essential to differentiate between hypertensive disease of pregnancy and other causes.
4. Haemolysis, elevated liver enzymes and low platelets (HELLP) is associated with pre-eclampsia and carries high maternal and neonatal morbidity.
5. Eclampsia can complicate severe pre-eclampsia or occur in stable or undiagnosed pre-eclampsia. Prompt delivery of the fetus should occur as soon as the mother has been stabilised.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
