Sameer Patel, Robert Loveridge, Chris Willars, Andre Vercueil, Thomas Best, Georg Auzinger
Despite considerable advances in maternity care, maternal death rates remain unacceptably high. Even with optimal care, unexpected complications can result in catastrophic consequences. Hemorrhage, cardiovascular and coronary conditions, and cardiomyopathy make up the three most common causes of pregnancy-associated deaths, followed by sepsis and thromboembolic disease. Although a number of deaths may be deemed to be potentially avoidable with appropriate education and infrastructure, others such as refractory hypoxia and peripartum cardiomyopathy are not...
July 2020: ASAIO Journal: a Peer-reviewed Journal of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs