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Maternal cardiorespiratory arrest is estimated to occur in 0.003 % of pregnancies and manifests by loss of consciousness and central cyanosis. There are a number of possible aetiologies for this event (Table 7.1), but in high-resource countries, pulmonary thromboembolism and amniotic fluid embolism are among the leading causes. A detailed description of the maternal conditions that may lead to cardiorespiratory arrest is beyond the aim of this book, so this chapter will focus on the acute management of the situation and the initial treatment of the two most frequent causes.
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Ayres-de-Campos, D. (2017). Maternal Cardiorespiratory Arrest. In: Obstetric Emergencies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41656-4_7
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