Abstract

NAPOLES MENDEZ, Danilo. Usefulness of vasoactive drugs in the obstetric patient in critical state. MEDISAN [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.7, pp.978-992. ISSN 1029-3019.

The obstetric patient in critical state due to certain disorders can be treated with vasoactive drugs and demands a special care by the obstetrician. With this literature review the aim was to make known the clinical entities which require the administration of these drugs in obstetrics, among them: embolism of the amniotic fluid, the septic shock, the lung thromboembolism and blood loss, with persistence of the hemodynamic unsteadiness after the appropriate replacement of volume. Equally, the doses are checked as well as the effect of each medication, according to the receptors they stimulate and their possible harmful reactions. The patient in critical state can attend any hospital institution and, in many cases due to the emergency of the situation, it can be necessary the use of the vasoactive substances outside of the intensive care units, so it is necessary that the obstetricians get to know such knowledge

Keywords : vasoactive drugs; obstetric care; secondary health care.

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