Objective: To investigate the clinical characteristics and outcomes of
obstetric patients requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission in a tertiary
hospital. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the clinical data of all
pregnant/postpartum patients admitted to a tertiary ICU from January 2014 to
December 2018. Result: One hundred and thirty-three obstetric patients
were analyzed. Most patients (114, 85.7%) were admitted postpartum, and 57.9%
(n = 77) of ICU admissions were from obstetric causes. The most common obstetric
cause of admission was obstetric hemorrhage (32, 24.1%), followed by
pregnancy-associated hypertension (25, 18.8%). The most common non-obstetric
cause of admission was cardiac disorder (16, 12%). Ninety-eight patients
(73.7%) came from non-urban areas. We compared patients from non-urban areas
versus urban areas: Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II,
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Clinical characteristics and outcomes of obstetric patients requiring ICU admission: a 5-year retrospective review
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Department of Critical Care Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, 530021 Guangxi, P. R. China
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Department of Burns and Plastic, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, 530021 Guangxi, P. R. China
*Correspondence: 11500315@163.com (Xing-Xin Gao)
Clin. Exp. Obstet. Gynecol. 2021, 48(1), 117–121;
https://doi.org/10.31083/j.ceog.2021.01.2124
Submitted: 29 April 2020 | Revised: 9 August 2020 | Accepted: 15 August 2020 | Published: 15 February 2021
Copyright: © 2021 The Authors. Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Abstract
Keywords
Intensive care
Maternal mortality
Obstetrics
Urban areas
Non-urban
Funding
2017GXNSFAA198045/Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi Province