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Shock during or following labor and delivery

Known as: Obstetric shock 
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
Use of the “obstetric shock index” as an adjunct in identifying significant blood loss in patients with massive postpartum hemorrhage
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Population-based study of risk factors for severe maternal morbidity.
BACKGROUND Severe maternal morbidity (SMM) is a serious health condition potentially resulting in death without immediate medical… 
Review
2000
Review
2000
Non-haemorrhagic obstetric shock.
  • A. ThomsonI. Greer
  • Bailliere's best practice & research. Clinical…
  • 2000
  • Corpus ID: 22669042
The causes of non-haemorrhagic obstetric shock (pulmonary thromboembolism, amniotic fluid embolism, acute uterine inversion and… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Amniotic fluid embolism: decreased mortality in a population-based study.
1989
1989
Neurohypophyseal function in postpartum hypopituitarism: impaired plasma vasopressin response to osmotic stimuli.
We studied neurohypophyseal function in 12 women with postpartum hypopituitarism (Sheehan's syndrome) by measuring plasma… 
1986
1986
Landmark article, Oct. 1941: Maternal pulmonary embolism by amniotic fluid as a cause of obstetric shock and unexpected deaths in obstetrics. By Paul E. Steiner and C. C. Lushbaugh.
1986
1986
Landmark article, Oct. 1941: Maternal pulmonary embolism by amniotic fluid as a cause of obstetric shock and unexpected deaths in obstetrics. By Paul E. Steiner and C. C. Lushbaugh.
1977
1977
Left ventricular subendocardial haemorrhages. A study of their morphology, pathogenesis and prognosis.
Review
1956
Review
1956
Fatal Pulmonary Embolism by Amniotic Fluid
Sudden death, during or just after labour, has only too often been attributed to " obstetric shock." Out of this aetiological… 
1949
1949
Fatal obstetric shock for pulmonary emboli of amniotic fluid.
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