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Chapter 82 - Amniotic fluid embolism

from V - Problems confined to obstetrics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2019

Róisín Monteiro ,
Marwa Salman ,
Surbhi Malhotra  and
Steve Yentis
Róisín Monteiro
Affiliation:
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals’ NHS Trust
Marwa Salman
Affiliation:
Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Surbhi Malhotra
Affiliation:
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
Steve Yentis
Affiliation:
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
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Analgesia, Anaesthesia and Pregnancy
A Practical Guide
 , pp. 245 - 246
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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Knight, M, Berg, C, Brocklehurst, P, et al. Amniotic fluid embolism incidence, risk factors and outcomes: a review and recommendations. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 2012; 12: 7.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Knight, M, Nair, M, Tuffnell, D, et al.; MBRRACE-UK. Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care: Lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2013–15. Oxford: National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, 2017.Google Scholar
McDonnell, NJ, Percival, V, Paech, MJ. Amniotic fluid embolism: a leading cause of maternal death yet still a medical conundrum. Int J Obstet Anesth 2013; 22: 329–36.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pacheco, LD, Saade, G, Hankins, GD, Clark, SL; Society for Maternal–Fetal Medicine. Amniotic fluid embolism: diagnosis and management. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2016; 215: B16–24.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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