Week 21: Maternity and obstetrics

Things to consider

• Obstetric diseases on critical care - PET, AFE, TMAs...

• Fluids in PET - should we "sacrifice the kidney" to avoid overload?

• Massive maternal haemorrhage

• Sepsis in pregnancy - not forgetting primary HSV

• Cardiac disease in pregnancy - Why are they prone to it? Peripartum cardiomyopathy?

Resources

• General guidelines

  • Maternal critical care part 1 and part 2 (BJAEd, Dr Cantellow)

  • Maternal critical care (ATOTW)

  • Enhanced maternal care guidelines (RCOA, OAA, et al)

  • COVID-19 in pregnancy

• Specific diseases of pregnancy

  • PET and HELLP and thrombotic microangiopathies in pregnancy (IBCC)

  • PET, eclampsia, and HELLP (LITFL)

  • Hypertension in pregnancy and amniotic fluid embolism (BJAEd)

• Bleeding

  • Major obstetric haemorrhage (BJAEd)

• Sepsis

  • Maternal sepsis guidelines (RCOG)

  • Sepsis in obstetrics (BJAEd)

• Cardiac disease

  • Cardiac disease in pregnancy: tutorial one and tutorial 2 (ATOTW)

  • Cardiogenic shock in pregnancy and peripartum cardiomyopathy (LITFL)

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