Late Pregnancy and Postpartum Emergencies.

This article covers complications commonly encountered in the emergency department in late pregnancy and the early postpartum period. It specifically addresses postpartum depression, peripartum cardiomyopathy, and the late pregnant or postpartum patient presenting with headache or neurologic complaints. Emergency physicians should be well versed in common and life-threatening postpartum pathologies. PMID: 30940372 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30940372?dopt=Abstract

Source: The Medical Clinics of North America - April 5, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Wheaton N, Al-Abdullah A, Haertlein T Tags: Emerg Med Clin North Am Source Type: research