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Amniotic fluid embolism: an Australian-New Zealand population-based study
BACKGROUND: Amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) is a major cause of direct maternal mortality in Australia and New Zealand. There has been no national population study of AFE in either country. The aim of this study was to estimate the incidence of amniotic fluid embolism in Australia and New Zealand and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4690249/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26703453 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-015-0792-9 |
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author | McDonnell, Nolan Knight, Marian Peek, Michael J. Ellwood, David Homer, Caroline S. E. McLintock, Claire Vaughan, Geraldine Pollock, Wendy Li, Zhuoyang Javid, Nasrin Sullivan, Elizabeth |
author_facet | McDonnell, Nolan Knight, Marian Peek, Michael J. Ellwood, David Homer, Caroline S. E. McLintock, Claire Vaughan, Geraldine Pollock, Wendy Li, Zhuoyang Javid, Nasrin Sullivan, Elizabeth |
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description | BACKGROUND: Amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) is a major cause of direct maternal mortality in Australia and New Zealand. There has been no national population study of AFE in either country. The aim of this study was to estimate the incidence of amniotic fluid embolism in Australia and New Zealand and to describe risk factors, management, and perinatal outcomes. METHODS: A population-based descriptive study using the Australasian Maternity Outcomes Surveillance System (AMOSS) carried out in 263 eligible sites (>50 births per year) covering an estimated 96 % of women giving birth in Australia and all 24 New Zealand maternity units (100 % of women giving birth in hospitals) between January 1 2010-December 31 2011. A case of AFE was defined either as a clinical diagnosis (acute hypotension or cardiac arrest, acute hypoxia and coagulopathy in the absence of any other potential explanation for the symptoms and signs observed) or as a post mortem diagnosis (presence of fetal squames/debris in the pulmonary circulation). RESULTS: Thirty-three cases of AFE were reported from an estimated cohort of 613,731women giving birth, with an estimated incidence of 5.4 cases per 100 000 women giving birth (95 % CI 3.5 to 7.2 per 100 000). Two (6 %) events occurred at home whilst 46 % (n = 15) occurred in the birth suite and 46 % (n = 15) in the operating theatre (location not reported in one case). Fourteen women (42 %) underwent either an induction or augmentation of labour and 22 (67 %) underwent a caesarean section. Eight women (24 %) conceived using assisted reproduction technology. Thirteen (42 %) women required cardiopulmonary resuscitation, 18 % (n = 6) had a hysterectomy and 85 % (n = 28) received a transfusion of blood or blood products. Twenty (61 %) were admitted to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), eight (24 %) were admitted to a High Dependency Unit (HDU) and seven (21 %) were transferred to another hospital for further management. Five woman died (case fatality rate 15 %) giving an estimated maternal mortality rate due to AFE of 0.8 per 100 000 women giving birth (95 % CI 0.1 % to 1.5 %). There were two deaths among 36 infants. CONCLUSIONS: A coordinated emergency response requiring resource intense multi-disciplinary input is required in the management of women with AFE. Although the case fatality rate is lower than in previously published studies, high rates of hysterectomy, resuscitation, and admission to higher care settings reflect the significant morbidity associated with AFE. Active, ongoing surveillance to document the risk factors and short and long-term outcomes of women and their babies following AFE may be helpful to guide best practice, management, counselling and service planning. A potential link between AFE and assisted reproductive technology warrants further investigation. |
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spelling | pubmed-46902492015-12-25 Amniotic fluid embolism: an Australian-New Zealand population-based study McDonnell, Nolan Knight, Marian Peek, Michael J. Ellwood, David Homer, Caroline S. E. McLintock, Claire Vaughan, Geraldine Pollock, Wendy Li, Zhuoyang Javid, Nasrin Sullivan, Elizabeth BMC Pregnancy Childbirth Research Article BACKGROUND: Amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) is a major cause of direct maternal mortality in Australia and New Zealand. There has been no national population study of AFE in either country. The aim of this study was to estimate the incidence of amniotic fluid embolism in Australia and New Zealand and to describe risk factors, management, and perinatal outcomes. METHODS: A population-based descriptive study using the Australasian Maternity Outcomes Surveillance System (AMOSS) carried out in 263 eligible sites (>50 births per year) covering an estimated 96 % of women giving birth in Australia and all 24 New Zealand maternity units (100 % of women giving birth in hospitals) between January 1 2010-December 31 2011. A case of AFE was defined either as a clinical diagnosis (acute hypotension or cardiac arrest, acute hypoxia and coagulopathy in the absence of any other potential explanation for the symptoms and signs observed) or as a post mortem diagnosis (presence of fetal squames/debris in the pulmonary circulation). RESULTS: Thirty-three cases of AFE were reported from an estimated cohort of 613,731women giving birth, with an estimated incidence of 5.4 cases per 100 000 women giving birth (95 % CI 3.5 to 7.2 per 100 000). Two (6 %) events occurred at home whilst 46 % (n = 15) occurred in the birth suite and 46 % (n = 15) in the operating theatre (location not reported in one case). Fourteen women (42 %) underwent either an induction or augmentation of labour and 22 (67 %) underwent a caesarean section. Eight women (24 %) conceived using assisted reproduction technology. Thirteen (42 %) women required cardiopulmonary resuscitation, 18 % (n = 6) had a hysterectomy and 85 % (n = 28) received a transfusion of blood or blood products. Twenty (61 %) were admitted to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), eight (24 %) were admitted to a High Dependency Unit (HDU) and seven (21 %) were transferred to another hospital for further management. Five woman died (case fatality rate 15 %) giving an estimated maternal mortality rate due to AFE of 0.8 per 100 000 women giving birth (95 % CI 0.1 % to 1.5 %). There were two deaths among 36 infants. CONCLUSIONS: A coordinated emergency response requiring resource intense multi-disciplinary input is required in the management of women with AFE. Although the case fatality rate is lower than in previously published studies, high rates of hysterectomy, resuscitation, and admission to higher care settings reflect the significant morbidity associated with AFE. Active, ongoing surveillance to document the risk factors and short and long-term outcomes of women and their babies following AFE may be helpful to guide best practice, management, counselling and service planning. A potential link between AFE and assisted reproductive technology warrants further investigation. BioMed Central 2015-12-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4690249/ /pubmed/26703453 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-015-0792-9 Text en © McDonnell et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article McDonnell, Nolan Knight, Marian Peek, Michael J. Ellwood, David Homer, Caroline S. E. McLintock, Claire Vaughan, Geraldine Pollock, Wendy Li, Zhuoyang Javid, Nasrin Sullivan, Elizabeth Amniotic fluid embolism: an Australian-New Zealand population-based study |
title | Amniotic fluid embolism: an Australian-New Zealand population-based study |
title_full | Amniotic fluid embolism: an Australian-New Zealand population-based study |
title_fullStr | Amniotic fluid embolism: an Australian-New Zealand population-based study |
title_full_unstemmed | Amniotic fluid embolism: an Australian-New Zealand population-based study |
title_short | Amniotic fluid embolism: an Australian-New Zealand population-based study |
title_sort | amniotic fluid embolism: an australian-new zealand population-based study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4690249/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26703453 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-015-0792-9 |
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