Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Pregnant Women.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the rate of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in pregnant patients as well as to investigate clinical conditions associated with mortality.

Methods

We used the Nationwide Inpatient Sample from 2006 to 2012 to identify a cohort of pregnant patients who underwent mechanical ventilation for ARDS. A multivariate model predicting in-hospital mortality was created.

Results

A total of 55,208,382 hospitalizations from the 2006-2012 Nationwide Inpatient Samples were analyzed. There were 2,808 pregnant patients with ARDS who underwent mechanical ventilation included in the cohort. The overall mortality rate for the cohort was 9%. The rate of ARDS requiring mechanical ventilation increased from 36.5 cases (95% confidence interval [CI] 33.1-39.8) pe

SUBMITTER: Rush B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5695219 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature