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MONTOYA CID, Freddy Ramón et al. Characterization of critical obstetrical patients. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 2011, vol.40, n.2, pp. 126-136. ISSN 0138-6557.

Introduction: the obstetrical patient proposes unique considerations for the critical care, thus, the staff members must to have knowledges on this area. These patients may benefit with the technology and the experience of the critical obstetrics. Objective: to characterize the critical obstetric patient seen in the "Dr. Luis Díaz Soto" Central Military Hospital. Methods: a cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted in critically ill obstetric patients seen in the «Dr. Luis Días Soto» Central Military Hospital from January, 2006 to June, 2008 including the pregnant and puerperal patients admitted in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). For analysis authors used the admission rate of obstetric patients in the ICU and the Chi² test to determine the statistical association among variables. Data collected were processed in SPSS and showed in frequency tables. Results: twenty six critical patients were studied where the more frequent age group was that between 31 and 35 years. The complicated pneumonia and the uterine atony were the leading causes of admission in ICU (15.6 and 11.6 %, respectively). The 23 % need mechanical ventilation and the hypovolemic shock was the major complication present (15.4 %). The mean stay was of 7 days. Conclusions: admission incidence of critical obstetric patients in ICU behaves in an irregular way and the non-obstetric causes were those with more frequency lead to admission in this unit.

Palabras clave : critical obstetric patient; intensive therapy.

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