Research Article

Obstetric Patients Requiring Intensive Care: A One Year Retrospective Study in a Tertiary Care Institute in India

Table 3

Admission diagnosis.

DiagnosisNumber of patients (%)Resp. failureHaemo. instabilityNeurologic impairmentRenal impairment

Obstetric
Haemorrhage 28 (51%)22312
 Antepartum11/28
 Postpartum
  Post LSCS10/28
  Post vaginal delivery5/28
 Ruptured ectopic2/282
Hypertensive disorders
 Preeclampsia7 (10%)111
 Eclampsia2 (4%)121
 HELLP syndrome2 (4%)2111
Sepsis6 (11%)4
Anaesth. complications1 (2%)1

Nonobstetric
Anaemia2 (4%)2
Valvular heart disease2 (4%)1
Peripartum cardiomyopathy2 (4%)22
Liver disease1 (2%)
Epilepsy1 (2%)1
Restrictive lung disease1 (2%)1