Near-Miss Incidents in Obstetric Patients Admitted to an Intensive Care Unit of a Tertiary Care Center in Eastern India: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

Aim: Obstetric patients presenting to the intensive care units (ICU) with or without underlying medical or surgical comorbidities can be a challenge to both the treating obstetrician and the intensivist. They occasionally present with near-miss events which if left untreated, can result in death.

Objectives: To study the prevalence, indications of ICU admissions, near-miss events, and their effect on mortality in obstetric and puerperal patients

Material & Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of the health records of all the obstetric and puerperal patients (pregnant and until 6 weeks postpartum) admitted to our tertiary care hospital from January 2019 to December 2020.