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Question: Does your heart rate go up rapidly or down rapidly during amniotic-fluid embolism?
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Question: amniotic fluid embolism? I recently had a co work die from a amniotic fluid embolism. She had had her baby without complications 10 hours before this. I am now scared to try and concieve. Does anyone have anymore information about this. Do you know of ways to prevent this or is there symptems?
Answer: Amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) is a rare and incompletely understood obstetric emergency in which amniotic fluid, fetal cells, hair or other debris enters the mother's blood stream via the placental bed of the uterus and triggers an allergic reaction. This reaction then results in cardiorespiratory (heart and lung) collapse and coagulopathy.
The condition is so rare (between 1 in 8000 and 1 in 80,000 deliveries) that most doctors will never encounter it in their professional careers, and as a result the exact process is poorly understood. However, it is believed that once the fluid and fetal cells enter the maternal pulmonary circulation a two-phase process occurs:
First phase
The patient experiences acute shortness of breath and hypotension. This rapidly progresses to cardiac arrest as the chambers of the heart fail to dilate and there is a reduction of oxygen to the heart and lungs. Not long after this stage the patient will lapse into a coma. 50% die within the first hour of symptoms.
Second phase
Although many women do not survive beyond the first stage, about 40 per cent of the initial survivors will pass onto the second phase. This is known as the hemorrhagic phase and may be accompanied by severe shivering, coughing, vomiting and the sensation of a bad taste in the mouth. This is also accompanied by excessive bleeding as the blood loses its ability to clot. Collapse of the cardiovascular system leads to fetal distress and death unless the child is delivered swiftly.
Causes
It is mostly agreed that this condition results from amniotic fluid entering the uterine veins and in order for this to occur there are three prerequisites:
* Ruptured membranes (a term used to define the rupture of the amniotic sac)
* Ruptured uterine or cervical veins
* A pressure gradient from uterus to vein
Although exposure to fetal tissue is common and thus finding fetal tissue within the maternal circulation is not significant, in a small percentage of women this exposure leads to a complex chain of events resulting in collapse and death.
There is some evidence that it can be associated with abdominal trauma
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Question: amniotic-fluid embolism??? We just recently had a news story about a mother of 7 dying while giving birth. Anyone else ever heard about it? How common is it? Anyone know anyone that has died that way? Here is the news link so you can read the story. Thanks
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=1051242&nid=148
Answer: I don't think its very common, but my best friend had two children by C-section with no problems. She was pregnant with her third and they went in to do another C-section. They got the baby out and started to stitch her up. She told her mom who was beside her that she felt hot and her heart stopped beating. They brought her back with CPR. She was in ICU on breathing machines for 2 days and then released to a regular room with her baby.
Apparently, it only happens when a woman has a c-section and 90% of the time in male births. Her OB told her afterwards that my best friend and another woman are the only ones that survived an amniotic embolism and she had 2 others die. She said my friend is doing much better than the other lady. The other lady has severe breathing problems now, because the emolism moved to her lungs.
I would not worry about it because it is very rare. My best friend is not a model citizen and did not get prenatal care until she was 8 months pregnant.
Question: what is mortality of amniotic fluid embolism?
Answer: ask your ob/gyn, they would be the most reliable source
