Use of Antihypertensive Medications and Uterotonics During Delivery Hospitalizations in Women With Asthma.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate whether the diagnosis of asthma is associated with the use of specific uterotonic and antihypertensive medications during delivery hospitalizations.

Methods

We used Perspective, an administrative database, to determine whether women hospitalized for delivery complicated by postpartum hemorrhage or preeclampsia received uterotonics and antihypertensive medications differentially based on the absence or presence of asthma from 2006 to 2015. Given that carboprost and intravenous (IV) labetalol may be associated with asthma exacerbation, adjusted models for receipt of these medications were created with adjusted risk ratios with 95% CIs as measures of effect. Risk for status asthmaticus based on receipt of carboprost and IV labetalol was analyzed.

Result

SUBMITTER: Booker WA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6019174 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature