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Mechanical Ventilation in Pregnant Woman

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It is estimated that 1% of pregnant patients will suffer a complication that forces them to be cared for in an intensive care unit. Many of them will require provision of ventilatory support, which becomes challenging. The approach to a pregnant patient has an increased complexity when facing the physiological changes of pregnancy, a difficult airway, avoiding maternal death, and avoiding perinatal death.

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  1. Gynecology, Critical Care Obstetrics Unit, Critical Care Obstetrics, Complejo Hospitalario, Caja de Seguro Social, Panama City, Panama

    Carlos Montufar

  2. Department of Obstetrics, Critical Care Obstetric Unit, Complejo Hospitalario, Caja de Seguro Social, Panamá City, Panamá

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  1. Critical Care Division Belize Healthcare Partners, Belize, Belize

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  2. Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Robert C Hyzy

  3. Critical Care Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Ahmed Mohamed Reda Taha

  4. Critical Care, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Yasser Younis A. Tolba

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Montufar, C. (2022). Mechanical Ventilation in Pregnant Woman. In: Hidalgo, J., Hyzy, R.C., Mohamed Reda Taha, A., Tolba, Y.Y.A. (eds) Personalized Mechanical Ventilation . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14138-6_15

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