Identifying the Critically Ill Parturient
In the United States (USA), maternal mortality has increased in the last 25 years. Much of this increase is likely attributable to a higher burden of maternal medical illness [1–6]. Maternal morbidity and “near miss” events have also markedly increased du
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Principles and Practice of Maternal Critical Care
Sharon Einav • Carolyn F. Weiniger Ruth Landau Editors
Principles and Practice of Maternal Critical Care
Editors Sharon Einav Intensive Care Unit Shaare Zedek Medical Center and Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine Jerusalem Israel
Carolyn F. Weiniger Division of Anesthesia Critical Care and Pain Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center Tel Aviv Israel
Ruth Landau Department of Anesthesiology Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY USA
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Foreword
I begin this foreword with a personal story. For 26 years of residency training and academic clinical practice, I provided care for high-risk obstetric patients at three major tertiary care academic medical centers. I took care of my fair share of complex obstetric patients, and I thought that I acquired reasonable expertise in the care of critically ill parturients. In 2005, I became the chief academic officer/associate medical school dean at a mid-sized, community- based academic medical center in a small upper Midwestern town. I continued to practice clinical anesthesiology as my schedule permitted, but the obstetric service was small, and it included mostly low-risk patients. In 2014, I returned to my professional roots as a full-time obstetric anesthesiologist, and I became Chief of the Obstetric Anesthesia Division at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, which is the major high-risk obstetric referral center for a wide geographic area, and where we have almost 5000 deliveries each year. I naiv
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