Characteristics, Outcomes, and Predictability of Critically Ill Obstetric Patients: A Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study.

Objective: To evaluate pregnant/postpartum patients requiring ICUs admission in Argentina, describe characteristics of mothers and outcomes for mothers/babies, evaluate risk factors for maternal-fetal-neonatal mortality; and compare outcomes between patients admitted to public and private health sectors.

Design: Multicenter, prospective, national cohort study.

Setting: Twenty ICUs in Argentina (public, 8 and private, 12).

Hypertensive disease of pregnancy in the ICU: a multicenter study.

Objective: To describe characteristics, outcomes and clinical presentations for hypertensive disease of pregnancy (HDP) in patients admitted to three ICUs in Argentina.

Methods: Case-series multicenter study.

Results: There were 184 patients with HDP.

Health insurance status and outcomes of critically ill obstetric patients: a prospective cohort study in Argentina.

Purpose: In Argentina, uninsured patients receive public health care, and the insured receive private health care. Our aim was to compare different outcomes between critically ill obstetric patients from both sectors.

Methods: This is a prospective cohort, including pregnant/postpartum patients requiring admission to 1 intensive care unit in the public sector (uninsured) and 1 in the private (insured) from January 1, 2008, to September 30, 2011.