Research Journal of Medical Sciences
ISSN: Online 1993-6095ISSN: Print 1815-9346
Abstract
It is important for ICUs to be prepared to manage critically ill obstetric patients. A team approach with an active involvement of the obstetrician is essential. Obstetric patients are generally young and fit, yet the potential for catastrophic complications is real. Regardless of the therapeutic advances of the last century, maternal morbidity and mortality continue to occur. To identify obstetric cases that arrive as emergencies needing critical care and the various interventions required, critical care management, importance of emergency critical care and its impact on future outcome of such admissions It was a prospective observational study this study was conducted from 1st May 2019‐ 30th April 2020 at the Department of Obstetrics and Gyanaecology and Intensive Care Unit, Midnapore Medical College. 40 patients were included in this study Majority of patients were admitted during 3rd trimester (50%) and after delivery (40%). No. of patients who died in this group was eventually high (3 each, 7.5%). Only 1 patient was admitted during 2nd trimester who survived well. 3 patients (7.5%) were admitted in 1st trimester with only one death (due to septicaemia resulting due to uterine perforation following D/E done outside). Only 7 deaths have occured in ICU among 38 maternal deaths during our study period. This fact shows that many mothers could have survived if they were shifted to ICU in proper time; which could not be done due to paucity of bed. This also shows the importance of providing intensive care to critically ill obstetric patients and the need for building up an ICU with sufficient beds in near future (devoted to only obstetric patients).
How to cite this article:
Soumyajit Pal and Kuheli Chowdhury. Study of Obstetric Emergency Cases Needing Intensive Care in a Peripheral Medical College.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36478/10.59218/makrjms.2024.4.307.312
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