RT Book, Section
A1 Cunningham, F. Gary
A1 Leveno, Kenneth J.
A1 Dashe, Jodi S.
A1 Hoffman, Barbara L.
A1 Spong, Catherine Y.
A1 Casey, Brian M.
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ID 1190768279
T1 Pulmonary Disorders
T2 Williams Obstetrics, 26e
YR 2022
FD 2022
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260462739
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1190768279
RD 2024/04/23
AB During  pregnancy,  pulmonary  disorders  are  frequently  encountered.  In  one  study,  asthma  and  community-acquired  pneumonia  accounted  for  almost  10  percent  of  nonobstetrical  antepartum  hospitalizations  (Gazmararian,  2002).  Pregnant  women,  especially  those  in  the  last  trimester,  tolerate  lung  disease  poorly  because  of  important  pregnancy-induced  changes  in  ventilatory  physiology  (Han,  2018).  Lung  volumes  and  capacities  are  significantly  altered.  In  turn,  these  shift  gas  concentrations  and  acid-base  values  in  blood.  These  important  and  sometimes  marked  changes  are  reviewed  in  Chapter  4  (p.  66),  and  normal  values  for  blood  gas  can  be  found  in  the  Appendix  (p.  1232).  Some  of  these  can  be  summarized  as  follows: