Open AccessRetrospective review of critically ill obstetrical patients: a decade's experience
Author(s) -
Tuncer Şimşek,
Can Eyigör,
Mehmet Uyar,
Semra Karaman,
Ali Reşat Moral
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
turkish journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1303-6165
pISSN - 1300-0144
DOI - 10.3906/sag-1009-5
Subject(s) - medicine , glasgow coma scale , eclampsia , intensive care unit , hellp syndrome , sofa score , critically ill , apache ii , retrospective cohort study , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , pregnancy , surgery , genetics , biology
doi:10.3906/sag-1009-5 Retrospective review of critically ill obstetrical patients: a decade’s experience Tuncer ŞİMŞEK, Can EYİGÖR, Mehmet UYAR, Semra KARAMAN, Ali Reşat MORAL Aim: To investigate the reasons for the admission of obstetrical patients to the intensive care unit (ICU) and their clinical outcomes, to compare the roles of the current scoring systems in estimating the mortality of these patients, and to determine adverse prognostic factors in critically ill obstetrical patients. Materials and methods: Data were retrospectively obtained from obstetrical patients admitted to the ICU in ou