Boston—Rates and etiologies of maternal cardiac arrest in Canada are similar to those found in the United States, a study has concluded.
“This is the first Canadian study on maternal cardiac arrest,” said Leyla Baghirzada, MD, MPH, clinical assistant professor at the University of Calgary, in Alberta. She presented the study at the 2016 annual meeting of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology.
Cardiac arrest during pregnancy is a rare but devastating event. The