Amongst many high-income countries, indirect medical conditions (e.g. cardiovascular disease, sepsis) now account for the majority of maternal deaths. In response to this concerning rise in indirect causes of maternal deaths, professional societies have developed guidelines that regionalize high-risk obstetric care and prioritize critical care expertise as a requirement for designated 'top' maternity hospitals. Critical care proficiency is mandated by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education for graduating obstetric anesthesiology fellows. Despite these requirements, no formal obstetric critical care educational curricula or fellowship pathways, combining critical care medicine and obstetric anesthesiology, currently exist. Dual subspecialty training in both obstetric anesthesiology and critical care medicine represents one strategy to improve the care of critically-ill obstetric patients and reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, which is one of the pressing healthcare issues of our time.

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