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- Title
Obstetric implications of acute respiratory failure during the peripartum period.
- Authors
Danciu, Bianca Mihaela; Moisă, Horaţiu Alexandru; Stănescu, Ana Maria Alexandra; Simionescu, Anca Angela
- Abstract
Pregnant women are at risk for episodes of acute respiratory failure due to anatomical changes brought on by the gestational period, as well as the characteristic immunohumoral status. Due to these changes, women are more prone to develop severe forms of respiratory pathologies and frequent complications. For this reason, pregnant women should be carefully monitored, thus avoiding dramatic situations that require mechanical ventilation, cardiorespiratory support or resuscitation maneuvers. The symptomatology and values of paraclinical parameters are often altered in pregnancy and thus they are not very helpful in diagnosis. However, early diagnosis of underlying disease is critical in these cases and the treatment should be started promptly. In addition to the idea of a careful follow-up, the presence of the fetus warrants extreme care, using some of the diagnostic and treatment techniques for maternal acute respiratory failure, as it may rapidly suffer irreversible effects due to hypoxia.
- Subjects
ADULT respiratory distress syndrome; PREGNANCY complications; RESPIRATORY diseases; ARTIFICIAL respiration; EARLY diagnosis; HYPOXEMIA; OBSTETRICS
- Publication
Obstetrică şi Ginecologie, 2021, Vol 69, Issue 4, p188
- ISSN
1220-5532
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.26416/obsgin.69.4.2021.5776