Emergências obstétricas: estudo de caso múltiplo em terapia intensiva

Abstract

Objective: To analyze obstetric emergencies assisted in an adult intensive care unit of a hospital in the interior of Brazil. Method: This is a multiple case study, involving women hospitalized with a diagnosis compatible with obstetric emergency in an Adult ICU of a Hospital on the Western Frontier of Rio Grande do Sul, in the period between 2016 and 2018. Information was collected from of medical records and configured four clinical cases. Results: Involved the diagnoses of hemorrhagic stroke, eclampsia, pulmonary thromboembolism and sepsis, which characterized obstetric emergencies. The age range of women ranged between 28 and 44 years, with three pregnant women and one who had recently given birth. The waiting time for admission to the ICU was one day for all and the period of hospitalization in the ICU averaged six days. All patients needed vasoactive drugs. Conclusion: The study allows to subsidize the research scenario in the construction of protocols and to assist in the articulation of health care networks for women with high-risk pregnancies.