Welcome to critical care obstetrics we are a international group committed to the prevention early identification and treatment of severe morbidities and or complications during the pregnancy and the postpartum period in order to minimize their impact to the mother her child her family and her community. Click on the title to browse this book. Critical care obstetrics phelan jeffrey p pacheco luis d foley michael r saade george r dildy gary a belfort michael a isbn 9781119129370 . The society for maternal and fetal medicine together with banner university medical center has incorporated an introduction to critical care ultrasonography among other critical care skills airway management intraosseous line placement in their annual critical care in obstetrics course41 point of care ultrasound represents a familiar tool for obstetric providers with novel and potentially powerful applications when used to evaluate maternal anatomy associated with commonly diagnosed . Maternal mortality is disastrous news for the society family newborn and the obstetrician yet we all who are care providers to these apparently healthy women carrying another life within them are dumbfounded by the clinical conditions arising